[PLUG] Re: A wiki for plug

Geoffrey Burling llywrch at agora.rdrop.com
Wed Mar 22 04:54:22 UTC 2006


On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Paul Johnson wrote:

> In Mediawiki's LocalSettings.php
>
> $wgUseRCPatrol = true; # use "patrolled edits"
> $wgSpamRegex = "/overflow\s*:\s*auto/"; # customize this
> $wgWhitelistEdit = true;   # true = user must login to edit.
>
> and moderate manual blocking goes a long way.
>
*Moderate* manual blocking??

Rhetorical question: you're not an Admin on Wikipedia, right?

Geoff

PS - Ward Cunningham has a very enlightening story about Wikis 
& vandalism; they aren't as self-healing as he once thought 
they were. I'd be happy to share it with folks.




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