From: Jean-Hugues ROBERT Date: 2004-05-10T17:55:44+09:00 Subject: Re: rubygarden homepage hacks At 17:17 10/05/2004 +0900, you wrote: >Sascha Doerdelmann wrote: >> Simon Strandgaard wrote: >> > On daily basis the homepage at rubygarden is being edited. >> >> Not only HomePage but some other pages, too. This is a well known >> problem with wikis and usually requires an active wiki community. I am >> not sure that a blacklist will do in all cases. >> >> See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWikiWorks >> and http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DeleteInsults >> > > >I remember the Docbook wiki got erased completely by an evil bot, this >was a big loss. > >http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/ > >Shouldn't we do something to prevent situations like that? > > > >BTW: It would be really nice if one could create one central Ruby account, >which then would work with: rubyforge, rubygarden, rcrchive, raa, rubynews. >Is such unification realistic ? I agree. Registering that often is painful. Unfortunately centralization does not scale. There must be other ways to fight bots. I think that they are not so good at OCR so far (that way I don't have to "invent" a new password all the time, that I keep forgetting anyway). >-- >Simon Strandgaard Yours, Jean-Hugues ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web: http://hdl.handle.net/1030.37/1.1 Phone: +33 (0) 4 92 27 74 17