wiki spam!

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hi all,

We've had worst  Spam attacks and the cases have been solved by all the wiki
admins without having to apply  further restrictions to access.

Cheers!

2008/6/20 Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org>:

> We can run an anti-blanking bot to avoid the most obvious spam.  Requiring
> logins makes tracking casual vandals harder without making it harder for any
> dedicated vandal such as this one from doing their devious deeds.
>
> Of course, if you want to restrict viral communication on our wiki by
> increasing the barrier to entry for casual participants... :-)
>
> SJ
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <ypod at mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> It's becoming very annoying having to deal with spam (bots?) operating on
>> the wiki, trying to blank wiki pages, like in the case of the following:
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multi-hop_mesh_network_in_MIT_campus
>>
>> Is there a way to prevent that? Why not require user logins to make edits?
>>
>> p.
>>
>> --
>> Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
>> Graduate student
>> Viral Communications
>> MIT Media Lab
>> Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058
>> http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ <http://www.mit.edu/%7Eypod/>
>>
>>
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Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
One Laptop Per Child
rafael at laptop.org
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