On Sunday 28 August 2005 18:21, Esben Stien wrote: > > you know how to solve the spam problem without requiring > > registration? > > Wikipedia seems to be doing great. As long as you have an history > option to roll back and a mechanism to detect and temporarily ban ip's > based on anomaly behavior, like updating 30 pages in 2 seconds, I > think a wiki works. > > If I look at f.ex the page for synthesis and I see viagra there, I'll > just revert the page to whatever suits me and the next person will see > the page as that. There is really no maintenance to a wiki. > > I don't want to come off rude and I can't say that I've tried myself > to run a wiki, Right. I guess Wikipedia has plenty of staff to keep an eye on it. If you're like me and leave it for weeks at a time, it's terribly distressing to come back and find it covered in graffitti. Yeah, you can roll it back, sure, but you have to be really on the case with this or you quickly lose your readership. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
