[PD] Pdpedia: Vandalism

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

We could try making a couple more people admins and see if we can  
keep up with the spam.  Otherwise, I am ok with requiring logins to  
edit.

.hc

On Dec 23, 2007, at 10:53 PM, marius schebella wrote:

> I think we had a discussion in the beginning and we agreed to make  
> the wiki only writeable for registered users as soon as we have to  
> deal with spam.
> so... I suggest to do that now.
> marius.
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> It's quite easy to delete spam on pdpedia, we just need people   
>> willing to do it.  I think it would be good to have a lot of  
>> admins  to make that easier.  So far, I've just been giving admin  
>> privileges  to anyone who asks to get things going.  I suppose we  
>> should think of  a process.
>> How about a consensus of the current admins (like the consensus  
>> of  developers for CVS)?
>> .hc
>> On Dec 23, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Derek Holzer wrote:
>>> My experience is that every Captcha can be defeated somehow.  
>>> It's  only a
>>> matter of time:
>>>
>>> http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/
>>>
>>> At FLOSS Manuals, we have it so that no edit can "go live"  
>>> without the
>>> approval of the moderator:
>>>
>>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData
>>>
>>> Human review seems like the only solution to this never-ending   
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> d.
>>>
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>> Hello list,
>>>>
>>>> There are several cases of vandalism at wiki.puredata.info, who  
>>>> takes
>>>> care about that? They are all at discussion pages.
>>>> Maybe there should be some kind of Captcha to prevent Bots from   
>>>> Spamming?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Articles:
>>>> http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Talk:message
>>>> http://wiki.puredata.info/en/comment
>>>> http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Talk:about
>>>>
>>>> Nearly every IP-edit in pdpedia. I would delete them, but I have no
>>>> admin-account.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --~~~~
>>>> Chris
>>>>
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