Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Revisiting hosted wiki software

[Noah Slater]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:32:10PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> There's also the case of Berlios that setup a single site-wide
> mediawiki for simplicity.

I would probably go for per-project wikis, but I wouldn't make it automatic. I
would have projects explicitly request a wiki. This allows each project to have
a front page, and to conveniently manage sub-pages.

> So there are several solutions, a few of them require coding, all of
> them require long-term maintenance, and all of them require finding
> something against spam.

We were running a MediaWiki for CouchDB before we moved to the ASF and we were
having spam problems. We forced users to register and login before making edits
and the spam problem vanished overnight.

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