wiki spam

[KWo]

Originally Posted by Maleficus

What about using something like a "trust" system??

i.e. people who we know, or have been here a while are "trusted" and get acess. This prevents the ass who registers, then 5 minutes later is defacing wiki for something stupid.

They have to be here so long or have so many posts, or be admitted by an admin before they can use wiki. They have to invest some time and energy in the community before they can use wiki.

I agree 100%. But how to make automatically system giving access to the wiki, to prevent admin (PMB) and safe his time checking manually every 2828 mambers?

[MarD]

Heyyo,

Well, I'm pretty sure I'd be setup so I'd log which username did what change and at what time. the Filebase shows who uploaded which file.. so I'd be a matter of looking at the "modified by" info.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

The wiki does that already, the "Recent changes" page on the left sidebar lists what pages have been changed recently and by whom.

[von Ryan]

Originally Posted by sPlOrYgOn

maybe make them register in order to edit?

I voted no, but I think Splorigon's idea is a very good one.

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[Zacker]

First of all only registered users should be allowed to edit pages. If you dont care to register, then your submissions probably aren't going to be worth anything.

The admins(=the council) should be able to set some kind of flag for the important and already big pages. This flag should allow only certified people to edit them.

Thoose fairly simple rules would give the best value of a wiki imho.

[Jeffrccar]

I agree with Zacker, you shouldn't be able to edit any of the pages as a Anonymous user. So if they can't put bad stuff on the Wiki main page they will put it in the section(s) of the Wiki and who's going to clean up that mess?

[FrostyCoolSlug]

As a wiki owner myself, its an issue that has to be addressed, It probably wasn't a person defacing your forum, that a script that google wikis, spiders them, and shoves the ads on, without the machine owners knowledge. (A backdoor and a simple perl script / exe could do this). Our solution was to 'protect' all important pages, which wouldn't be changed in a while. Other than that, we can only hope (With regards to 'Require registration', its not hard to register, login and use cookies to gain access to the pages :/)

With regards to the poll, i'm gonna have to go against the general population and vote YES. Its one thing to deface a wiki, its another to give a website a bad name because of it