Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
then how does wikipedia manage it? what i do is, first you enter email id and userid, then you are mailed a link where you can add password and register. So far, in six months, only one spammer has got in. What you are giving is not a reason - it is an excuse.
Wikipedia has hundreds of contributors who help out in content development and cleanups. Any spammer activity is noticed within hours and cleaned up. Spammers look for lesser known wikis where changes are less and change logs are examined less frequently. The wiki has a few edits a month. Contributions come from lesser known players and are infrequent. It doesn't make sense to keep it open when contributions come from a handful of people. Also, I am yet to see a contribution from the so called "gurus" of this list. Give us a helping hand and keep it active. Assist in the monitoring of changes and we'll open it up.
And now in the long standing tradition of this list, Flame on.