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Re: [school-discuss] https://wiki.schoolforge.net installed ... Sign up and set your preferences



In my experience running Mediawiki sites, spam users can get pretty
ferocious - the page at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features lays out some useful
strategies and extensions.

Cheers,

Bill

On 1/29/12, David Bucknell <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> I've configured https://wiki.schoolforge.net  with basic permissions -- an
> experiment at this point:
>
> * Please create an account.  (You'll find it in the upper-right-hand
> corner.)
>
> * You will need to go to "Preferences" after creating an account and confirm
> your e-mail address.  If you don't you will not only not be able to edit,
> but you will also not be able to receive or send e-mails from the site.
>
> * I suggest spending a few minutes on the tabbed items within Preferences.
> Some of them will be important -- at least it will be good to know that
> they're there.
>
> * Anyone who confirms his or her e-mail can edit.  This is too loose (in
> light of spammers), but it will hopefully be ok for a few days while we get
> our feet wet with this tool.
>
> Finally, I recommend you begin refreshing your memories about  how Media
> Wiki works:
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User_Guide
>
> Best wishes,
>
> David
>
> P.S. The site uses https because it must follow its mother,
> https://schoolforge.net.
>
> ----- Message from david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------
>     Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:35:02 -0800
>     From: David Bucknell <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [school-discuss] wiki.schoolforge.net installed ... more to come
>       To: schoolforge-discuss <schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Hi, I've just installed Media Wiki, as I said I would earlier.  It's at
>> https://wiki.schoolforge.net
>>
>> More to come on getting started,
>>
>>
>> David
>
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