[SLUG] Wiki [Was:We can't see how, yet]

john at johnallsopp.co.uk john at johnallsopp.co.uk
Wed Apr 5 09:40:44 BST 2006


> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> Since we are a closed group, I wouldn't have thought protection
>> against spammers would be our main concern. I'd have thought we
>> could
>> just put it behind a password protected directory.
>>
>
> I think the wiki should be publicly available on our website ... my
> assumption was that editing should only be by our closed group,
> however
> the other LUGs using wikis seem to have good success with open access
> to
> editing. However yes, you can close ranks but it still needs to be
> kept
> patched for security holes (it seems things like this have plenty of
> them over time).
>
> Steve O

Even changes to Wikipedia, apparently, were stopped a couple of days
ago due to a concerted effort to vandalise it.

J




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