[Lincs] Wiki

[iain Baker]

On 9/26/05, Alan Pope <alan.pope at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/09/05, Grahame.Mulliss at ulh.nhs.uk <Grahame.Mulliss at ulh.nhs.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Quick vote here… is it time for the LLUG wiki to wing it's way to the great
> > data storage cluster in the sky or should keep the poor old thing and look
> > at ways of improving security?
> >
>
> Just so you know. The Hants, Surrey and Wolves LUGs used to get a lot
> of spam on their (usemod based) wikis too. Some of the HantsLUG guys
> developed patches to help reduce that and make it easy to roll back
> spam. These patches were tested on the Hants Wiki (and a few other
> personal wikis). They were then deployed to the Wolves and Surrey LUGs
> wikis (by myself) and neither gets any more than one spam of one page
> per fortnight (or thereabouts). They are easily (two clicks) and
> quickly (within minutes or hours) vapourised by a number of admins who
> keep an eye on the RSS feeds.
>
> Just a thought, but if you wanted to keep *a* wiki, not necessarily
> the wiki you have, you could do worse than use the codebase that
> HantsLUG uses.
>
> The AntiSpam page [1] on the HantsLUG wik has more details.
>
> I'd gladly volunteer to help you setup a wiki such as
> Hants/Surrey/Wolves has, and migrate any useful content from your
> existing wiki over.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
> [1] http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AntiSpam
>

My vote is that the current wikki certainly be retired... as a
replacement my vote would be along the lines of the set-up at
www.lancastriaplayers.co.uk ... basically you can input if you get an
account! the webmaster gives each member the relevent priveledges
(standard priveledges are for the forum... additional priveledges are
given to comittee members for file uploads and news etc)... just a
thought