From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2004-09-29T00:47:04+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyGarden Spam On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:35:16 +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote: > Andreas Schwarz wrote: >> Curt Hibbs wrote: >>> It certainly would be tolerable if a wiki is only spammed from >>> time-to-time. I have five project wikis on RubyForge, and I have >>> to go clean up the spam *every* day. This is more than >>> troublesome, it is beginning to make wikis unusable. >> I am using MediaWiki (the Wikipedia software), and because I can >> rollback all changes from one IP with a single click, and ban >> this IP with another click, it is really no valuable target for >> spammers, and I never had problems with spam. > That's a very nice feature and, perhaps, its the kind of thing we > could get into Ruwiki over time. I'll have to look at the MediaWiki software to see how this is done; perhaps it can be a 1.0 target feature -- but there are a lot of features still desired and requested. I'm currently approaching Wiki-spam from the concept of reducing the value of wiki-spam as well as (ultimately) making it harder to spam wikis without harming the overall usability. There *will* have to be some rearchitecture of Ruwiki to make this happen -- the current processing pipeline is not as straightforward as I would like. That said, I think that I'm close to testing Ruwiki on RubyForge -- watch ruwiki.rubyforge.org in the coming days. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca : as of this email, I have [ 6 ] Gmail invitations