[PLUG] A PLUG wiki

[Dan Young]

On 7/30/07, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/30/07, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
>
> > > However, as I said above any decent wiki I don't have to run is good with me.
> >
> > My other concern with an "open wiki" is wiki spam.  If we do not have some
> > barrier to posting, we are going to spend a lot of time removing crap from
> > bots.
>
> My personal wiki got a lot of wiki spam before I required accounts to
> edit, now it gets virtually none.  (Creating an account only takes
> about 45 seconds, and doesn't even have a captcha, but it was enough
> to deter almost all spammers.)
> Granted, the PLUG wiki would have more of a 'net presence than mine
> does.. but it would also have more people who care about it.

A MediaWiki instance I administer got spammed while requiring accounts
for edits. I had to add a CAPTCHA (the MediaWiki reCAPTCHA extension).

Having done Moin also, I think I like it better (no DB).

Find your pet feature here:
http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MediaWiki+MoinMoin

-- 
Dan