[gobolinux-users] The wiki

[MJ Ray]

"MLA (Peter Clark)" <mla-gobo at forrussia.org> wrote:
>     I've been studiously monitoring the wiki for the past couple of weeks, and 
> I've noticed that, aside from one person, all the legitimate edits (which 
> have been very few) have been from registered users.

That is no longer true.  Hope that helps.

> All the gibberish 
> (what's up with that, anyways? Clearly, someone is posting gibberish at one 
> time, from various IP addresses, but to what purpose?) has been from 
> anonymous IP addresses. I propose that the policy of the wiki be changed to 
> only allow registered users to edit it. What say you all?

I dislike that idea.  I suggest installing a gibberish-detector and
other counter-measures instead.  If we require registrations but don't
do anything about the spam, someone will just use mvs or similar to
register and spam.
http://search.cpan.org/~markj/WWW-Mediawiki-Client/bin/mvs

A list of suggested counter-measures can be found at
http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AntiSpam
but I don't know where to find MediaWiki implementations and I'm not
sure which of them are worth doing.

http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/Talk:The_boot_scripts_anatomy seems to be
an irrelevant advert, BTW.  How does one request deletion?  I believe
part of the reason there are very few wiki edits is that there is not
enough guidance for non-MediaWiki users.  To do some simple markup, I
followed three links, ending up off-site at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Reference_card and still hadn't
find the answer.  In the end, I trial-and-error'd it instead.

Regards,
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