[LAU] [Consortium] wiki.LAO - lockdown to registered users

[david]

Makes sense to me!

On 07/17/2012 08:19 AM, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> Wholeheartedly agree.
>
> On 07/17/2012 12:54 PM, Robin Gareus wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> http://wiki.linuxaudio.org is seeing an increasing amount of SPAM.
>>
>> For a while it has been sufficient to [fail2]ban IP addresses that
>> incorrectly guess CAPTCHA - ie. prevent brute-force attacks and manually
>> revert the remaining pollution. -- Yet in the last months either CAPTCHA
>> breaking has improved or there are real persons doing the spamming.
>>
>> I did not do statistics, but from watching the changelog I gather that
>> the vast majority of contributions to the wiki comes from registered
>> users. So the idea is to lock the wiki down and only allow registered
>> users (registration requires an email address) to edit it.
>>
>> Thoughts? Objections?
>>
>> robin


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