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

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:46:19PM +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
> > 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.

I have a couple public (i.e. !intranet) MoinMoins and Mediawikis
around - both are spammed by registered spammers :/

I eventually forbade registrations because this wasn't criticial but
this certainly isn't a solution in this case.

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Sylvain