[linux-audio-user] [ANN] wiki.freeaudiosoftware.org online

[nigel henry]

I'm on several mailing lists and forums. For the mailing list you have to 
register with your email address, also a password if you want to be able to 
edit your profile. For forums you have to provide a login name and a password 
if you want to post to the forum. Just what is the problem in having to 
provide login details to post to a wiki? Personally I'm sick of the stuff 
that comes into the mailbox. Viagra, Penis extensions, You've won the lottery 
(6 times in the last month) . Why should we leave the door open on the wiki 
so that this scum can just walk in and corrupt the wiki pages, just so 
someone doesn't have to spend 10 or 20 seconds logging in to edit the 
pages?And after all, it only takes 10 or 20 seconds to login. I use the same 
login and password for all the forums I'm subscribed to, unless the login 
name is already taken. Then I have an alternative. Forums are not a high 
security risk, but it's certainly better to have the need to register rather 
than leaving the door wide open, and having every joe scumbag wandering in 
and corrupting someones genuine contribution to a wiki, forum, or whatever. 
Nigel.





On Sunday 28 Aug 2005 6:21 pm, Esben Stien wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> writes:
> > you know how to solve the spam problem without requiring
> > registration?
>
> Wikipedia seems to be doing great. As long as you have an history
> option to roll back and a mechanism to detect and temporarily ban ip's
> based on anomaly behavior, like updating 30 pages in 2 seconds, I
> think a wiki works.
>
> If I look at f.ex the page for synthesis and I see viagra there, I'll
> just revert the page to whatever suits me and the next person will see
> the page as that. There is really no maintenance to a wiki.
>
> I don't want to come off rude and I can't say that I've tried myself
> to run a wiki, but it surely seems to be possible, thinking about all
> the public wikis' I've visited.
>
> A wiki that requires registration hurts us more than spam, in my
> opinion.