something should be decided to stop wiki spam

Lukáš Lalinský lalinsky at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 21:09:27 BST 2007


On 10/9/07, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> It's annoying. Anything that prevents such spam is better than nothing.
> Even if it means no new wiki editors until Canonical admins decide
> how to prevent it. Please, close registration for a while, at least.

What about something like
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/WikiSpamProtection? Basically, it would
mean adding HTTP auth with known username and password for pages that
need write access. It should be quite easy to setup, and it seems to
be effective.

Lukas



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