Re[2]: FOSDEM 2006 - Saturday dinner

[Manuel Guesdon]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:55:38 +1100 comrade@obverse.com.au wrote:

 >| On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:57:27PM +0100, Manuel Guesdon wrote:
 >| > On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:07:45 +0100 Helge Hess 
 ><helge.hess@opengroupware.org> wrote:
 >| > 
 >| >  >| On 18. Nov 2005, at 19:39 Uhr, Nicolas Roard wrote:
 >| >  >| > done: http://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/FOSDEM_2006
 >| >  >| >
 >| >  >| > ask webmasters@gnustep.org to be added to the wiki edit group, or if
 >| >  >| > you just want to be inscribed on this page, send me a mail.
 >| >  >| 
 >| >  >| A Wiki where people can't edit somehow contradicts the idea? No?
 >| > 
 >| > Please see messages concerning 'spammers' problems. 
 >| > Noone came with a better idea to avoid this problem.
 >| 
 >| Here's one:
 >| 
 >| Please consider allowing tentative write access in a way like
 >| subscribing to mailing lists:
 >| 
 >| You enter your screen name, real name a password. This is as usual to
 >| register an editor account. You also enter an email address. You will
 >| receive an email containing a large random string in both the subject
 >| and the body. There is also a small text for unintended recipients to
 >| disregard the mail. You reply, and the account is enabled. There are
 >| probably already mediawiki components that do this somewhere.
 >| 
 >| This will decrease the number of spammers significantly. An optional
 >| further enhancement: Allow three registered authors to freeze an account's
 >| write privileges for 48 hours and the name to be put on an admin
 >| watchlist with comments.
 >| 
 >| But even the first thing will avoid the bots fairly well. It works for
 >| mailing lists adequately, and should work better than the current
 >| approach we've got.
 >| 
 >| Allow more people - perhaps like cbv? - who are regular wiki maintainers
 >| to rollback all changes of single users. Allow them to block single
 >| users.

That seems great. Could you tell me exactly how to do this with standard 
mediawiki-1.5.1  (I don't have enough time to try hacking it) ?


Manuel 

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