Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: GNU Arch wiki being moved

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:21 -0400, Michael Olson wrote:
> "Andy Tai" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Thanks for your concern.  I did not examine the data in the early
> > days but recent contributions mostly came from explicitly logged in
> > user accounts.  However, what you say is valid and I may remove the
> > restriction for a while to see how it goes.  Recently the spam on
> > the wiki has been somewhat annoying.
> 
> What I do with the wiki that I maintain is to make the FrontPage only
> writable to logged-in users, but make most (if not all) other pages
> writable by everyone.  This keeps spam out of the most embarrassing
> and noticeable place, but permits easy editing of information pages.

We used to see scripts hit several pages adding hundreds of links before
it was made authenticated-user-only. This rarely affected the frontpage
anyway at that point.

Rob
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