Re: gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

[Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Geoff Swan wrote:

> +1 I think it unlikely that a gEDA wiki would be targeted.

It is very likely to be targeted by semi clever spam bots. I administrate 
a couple of wikis. Plain, anonymous write accesss had to be disabled because
they caught spam bots trying to distribute their spew after a few weeks. 
Captchas work well for edits works as an antidot. But they are a hassle to 
legitimate users, too.

The only site I know, that manage to get away with open write access to 
anyone and anything are those with a massive amount of users. Most 
significantly: the projects run by wikimedia (wikipedia, wikibooks, wikisource, 
wikicommons, ...). 

This is one of the arguments in favor of wikibooks: The social/technical
environment is already there, well tested and found to be working.


> I think wikimedia keeps a history so it may be trivial to restore an

This is part of the wiki concept. Consequently, virtually all wiki software
stores versions and allows for reverts. This includes dokuwiki, which is 
behind the screens of gpleda.org.

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