Re: wiki - files

[Nikola Smolenski <smolensk@xxxxxxxx>]

Дана Saturday 14 November 2009 13:20:16 Jens Granseuer написа:
> On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 00:01 +0100, mc collilieux wrote:
> > Jens Granseuer a écrit :
> > > Also, editing is currently disabled until I've figured out what we want
> > > to do, and how that's done with pmwiki. Suggestions welcome. Anybody
> > > have experience with pmwiki? Our old wiki did have some regular spammer
> > > issues.
> >
> > What do you need ? Perhaps read first pages:
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Passwords
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PasswordsAdmin
> > and then, if you have questions about...
>
> Yeah, I already had a look at those pages. I'm just not sure what would
> be a good policy. In the old wiki, we had editing enabled for everyone.
> On the one hand, that caused quite a bit of spam, on the other we
> actually had useful additions and corrections by "everyone". If we just
> restricted editing to a few known contributors we'd lose that. Maybe
> setting a global editing password that we'd pass to people interested in
> contributing is a good compromise. Thoughts?

MediaWiki has several different ways of fighting spam. For example, you could 
forbit unlogged people to save edits that contain new URLs, or use captchas 
if a new URL is detected.