On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:39:20PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Decibel! wrote:
> >> As long as that holds, I'm absolutely up for giving it a try. Maybe part
> >> of the disagreement has been from a misunderstanding of what a "public
> >> wiki" is. In my book, a *public* wiki is one that doesn't need a
> >> verified account. (I assume that you refer to verified account above. If
> >> not, I don't agree until you add the word verified)
> >
> > Well, at the bare minimum we need a captcha or something similar.
> > Without that then yes, we're going to get all kinds of crap accounts.
> > Do we just have that turned off, or does mediawiki actually not support
> > that?
>
> I'd say we want email verification, so that we can contact the authors
> when needed.
>
> That said, I have no clue about mediawiki ;-)
I have a suspicion that spammers are sophisticated enough to be able to
handle simple email verification... :/
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