[SAC] Spam in Wiki

[Tyler Mitchell]

While most type of that spam does not really hurt too much it does make
things look badly maintained. Should we step up the barrier to editing
by adding email authentication during account creation? Or will this
prevent the newbie from contributing?

Weird, I thought it was enabled, only to find that my definition of "authentication required" differed from mediawiki's :)

This is enabled, but not what we needed:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEmailAuthentication

This looks like what we need...
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_authentication_before_editing

I'm tempted to just turn it on but wonder how it will handle those who may be regular editors and not confirmed.
Want to try it?

Tyler

----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:33 am
Subject: Re: [SAC] Spam in Wiki
To: sac at lists.osgeo.org

> On 11-04-19 09:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
> >The other option would be add Open ID or - better even - allow 
> editing>with the regular OGSeo account (which I believe already 
> includes email
> >authentication). What is the status of the CRM, although this 
> might be a
> >separate thread.
> 
> Arnulf,
> 
> I will note that the form for creating OSGeo accounts does not include
> email verification.  It's main advantage has been that it 
> is unique to
> OSGeo and no one has bothers writing a robot specifically for us.
> 
> I believe efforts to switch to using OSGeo LDAP for wiki ids has 
> fallen down
> in the past trying to figure out how to map the existing ids.
> 
> Best regards,
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