[PD] pdpedia and spam

[Philip Potter]

2009/10/19 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>:
>
> I do have ssh access to the wiki server and would be happy to make any
> changes that people agree upon.  I am currently running another mediawiki
> for Firmata (http://firmata.org).  When the spambots started slamming it, I
> switched it so only logged in users could edit it, but then created a public
> account and posted that username and password on the wiki itself, see the
> bottom of this: http://firmata.org/wiki/Main_Page  Now there is no more
> spam.
>
> Ideally that public account would be posted on the login page so its easy to
> find.  This system was used in the http://barcamp.org wiki for many years
> and worked there.

Thanks, Hans. Gets my vote.

Phil