[maemo-community] Spam comments on the wiki

[From: Tim Samoff]

Hi Andre,

Andre Klapper wrote:
> Looking at
> http://wiki.maemo.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=500&days=30 
> you can see that spam comments are added rather often nowadays, both by
> registered accounts but mostly by anonymous edits.

Yes, I've done my fair share of wiki Undos in the past months myself.

> I wonder if those changes happen automatically (not really sure) and if
> some better protection should be introduced (and if it would help), such
> as CAPTCHAs. 

I think with the current editing traffic that the wiki gets, any sort of
spam protection is completely fine. The people who do actually care
about updating the wiki are most likely those types who don't mind a few
hoops in order to keep the content legit.

Imho,
Tim

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