[wplug-internet] Blocking Anonymous Wiki Edits

Duncan Hutty dhutty at ece.cmu.edu
Thu Apr 30 15:03:52 EDT 2009


Michael Semcheski wrote:
> Hey Everybody,
> 
> Due to the seemingly unending wave of anonymous users who insert
> gibberish and nonsense into our wiki pages, I would like to propose we
> block anonymous edits on the wiki.
> 
> Two or three times a week, an anonymous user from an out-of-the-blue
> IP address will add some nonsense to the wiki.  I think that if people
> weren't regularly going through the recent changes and rolling back
> these edits, our wiki would progress toward entropy.
> 

Perfectly reasonable, I don't think that anonymous edits are necessary.
Of course, if we're seeing spam edits, we'll likely see spam 
registrations followed by spam edits, but it will probably ease things 
for a while.
-- 
Duncan Hutty
System Administrator, ECE
Carnegie Mellon University

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