Em Seg, 2006-12-11 às 22:09 -0500, Rob escreveu: > On Monday 11 December 2006 21:42, Esben Stien wrote: > > That's a big point in having a wiki where you don't have to > > register. You actually have no, absolutely zero, maintenance, > > because the users removes the spam. > > > > You install a wiki, then leave it be. > > That's great with a wiki that has a wildly active userbase, like > Wikipedia. On any other wiki, what the spammers count on for > their business model is that people are not looking at the > recent changes page 20 times a day to delete Chinese search > engine bait. On a public site with a moderate pagerank and a > few hundred users making updates a few dozen times a day, like > the one I ran for Gambas documentation (it's still there, and > still called a wiki, but it's really a CMS with more structure > than a wiki) once they found it, it was totally out of hand. > > Even with registration, if you're running any common kind of wiki > software, like Mediawiki or TWiki, there are thousands of bots > out there that will auto-register and post spam. You need a > CAPTCHA or email verification besides the registration. > > And even if your site is as active as Wikipedia, that means the > site is big enough that it's going to need constant maintenance > anyway for non-content-related reasons. > > The truth is that wikis, like gardens, need to be tended > constantly or they get vermin and weeds. In no way is it a "set > it and forget it" situation. > > Rob of course you have to add content, but the purpose of a wiki is to not need a registration, at least this is the way i see a wiki, you dont care for spammers, if it is getting really abused you will have to find a way to block off course, or even let it be, but i see wikis and wikis, and having to registrate to edit it is pointless imo.