On 26-Dec-06, at 12:20 AM, Anurag wrote:
uncontrollable, and not to the extent of shutting down the wiki. In the second type, a proper registration policy keeps spammers out.
if someone volunteers to keep the wiki clean then we can have publicly editable wiki as well, absolutely no problems with that.
no one person can do this. A wiki has to be as accessible as possible. This means that there *will* be some spam. And all users should cooperate in removing spam. Which means educating the users. It is fairly simple - everytime you look at the wiki, click 'recent changes', go to anything that looks like spam and revert it. Educating users is important. We spit on the roads, litter at will and never clean up anything by nature - i have had numerous instances of users mailing me saying there is spam on my wiki - but they cant be bothered, or rather, do not feel the need to clean it up.
a registration policy as mentioned above - and maybe even moderating the first post by a new user should solve this problem. At the very least, please put information on the login page detailing the procedure to be followed to get an account.