Ryan, how do the 'blacklist' pages work? What we did for the DSpace
Wiki (which uses the same s/w and runs on the same machine) is create a
'registered user' page, and only users whose name are on this page can
edit anything. So anyone can sign up, but we have to manually add them
to that page before they can edit anything. I viewed this as a last
resort, but necessary because our Wiki was getting trashed by some sort
of bot thing several times a day. If the blacklist thing offers an
alternative I'd love to try it out.
(I'm probably missing the bleedin' obvious, feel free to say 'RTFM' if
appropriate)
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Lee [mailto:ryanlee_at_w3.org]
> Sent: 21 November 2005 15:42
> To: general_at_simile.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Public wiki?
>
> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> > Ryan Lee wrote:
> >
> >>> I was also toying with the idea of installing WikiMedia
> instead of
> >>> MoinMoin.
> >>
> >> Are you looking to gain something in addition to its
> familiarity via
> >> Wikipedia?
> >
> > No, not really.
> >
> >>> nono, hosting is not the problem, it's actually already there
> >>>
> >>> http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/
> >>>
> >>> and it contains already a good amount of background even
> if most of
> >>> this stuff is now probably obsolete, or even just private to the
> >>> project (like meeting schedules and stuff like that).
> >>>
> >>> I'll play around with wikimedia when I have a little time
> and see how
> >>> that works.
> >>>
> >>> Ryan, suggestions?
> >>
> >> We do have two pages open to the public - account creation and the
> >> piggy bank demo page. I installed a content filter that's
> kept the
> >> page free of spam for the past twenty days. It's a
> blacklist, but it
> >> is kept up to date by the community on a fairly regular
> basis, and you
> >> can add to a local appendix yourself.
> >>
> >> Perhaps we can open up the whole wiki for a bit while keeping the
> >> blacklist pages locked down and see how it goes.
> >
> > Sure, the simplest thing that can work. Why not.
>
> The floodgates have reopened.
>
> Are there other pages we feel should be protected? BadContent and
> LocalBadContent are presently locked down, by necessity.
>
> --
> Ryan Lee ryanlee_at_w3.org
> W3C Research Engineer +1.617.253.5327
> http://simile.mit.edu/
>
Received on Tue Nov 22 2005 - 13:30:00 EST