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

[Mike Bennett]

The CruxZine wiki was doing fine until we put ourselves on the
MediaWiki: List of Sites that User MediaWiki page.

Then we started getting hit with spambots ervy few hours, just adding
a load of spam links in a hidden div tag.

Problem was solved by making pages publicly viewable, but only
writeable to registered users. We still have the odd spammer, but very
very rarely (2 in about a month) and so reverting the pages is really
easy.

Changing the config to make it read-only was simple. One thing I would
like to see is the ability to force a registration-confirmation so
that you have to supply a valid email address but apart from that, I'm
very happy with MediaWiki, having previously used TikiWiki I find
MediaWiki much better (although this is a personal preference I
suppose),

Setup was easy. Untar and then run an install.php script which walks
you through config settings.

Hope this is useful,
Mike

On 4/5/06, Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> > Even changes to Wikipedia, apparently, were stopped a couple of days
> > ago due to a concerted effort to vandalise it.
>
> The keyword there is "concerted". Unless we annoy someone then they're
> not going to start picking on our Wiki with anything other than a bot
> looking for known vulnerabilities/spam holes (hence the AbuseMod fork).
>
> However, I've never run a Wiki so Mike's our resident expert on such
> things - so I'll be interested to hear his experiences :D
>
> Steve O
>
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