spam on wiki take 2...

[Fabio Machado de Oliveira]

Robert Collins escreveu:
> Well, today I deleted 18 spams *from today*.
> 
> This is getting ridiculous.
> 
> How about locking the wiki with an ACL with the following settings:
> 
>  - any user of the wiki can add people to the ACL to edit the wiki
>  - all pages that are currently 'any user can edit' become 'users in
> this acl can edit' - and we set it as the default for new pages.
> 
> This will force spammers to get someone already in the wiki users group
> to add them before they can edit pages, so after a few days where we
> find out the existing spammers, we should be spammer free.
> 
> On the down side, rather than 'its a wiki, you can contribute', we will
> have 'its a wiki, get any existing wiki user to authorise you by asking
> on IRC/mailing list'. Which is a bit chilling on contribution, but
> perhaps the nuisance value has got to this level.
> 
> -Rob

Perhaps a smaller step like testing if the user's e-mail is valid, having a
confirmation to do it, and/or a captcha, would be enough for automated spam.