[cgiapp] Anonymous home page editing?

[Jason A. Crome]

We could just add reCAPTCHA to the wiki and be done with it.  I don't
believe it's difficult to do.

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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Joshua Miller <unrtst at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ron Savage <ron at savage.net.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 08:23 -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>> > On 05/14/2011 02:20 AM, Joshua Miller wrote:
>> > > Is there a reason the home page can be modified by anyone
>> sans-registration
>> > > and sans-approval?
>> >
>> > No good reason. Does anyone want to be the "wiki admin" and see about
>> > making that change with the current software, or moving us to a
>> > better/newer wiki platform?
>>
>> I'd like to know how exactly we are to judge a request from someone to
>> get access to updating the site.
>>
>
> Have they said "HI" on this list at all? Could easily require more than
> that, but if someone has never even mentioned a peep on here, they probably
> shouldn't be editing the home page.
>
>
>> Or is it the case the edits would take place on a non-public version,
>> which is reviewed by an editor?
>>
>>
> Just my 2 cents, but I don't think the site needs that much protection at
> this time. If there's a log of changes, who made the change (registered
> user), and that user was vetted by saying Hi to the list one or more times,
> that should be enough to stop anonymous spam link insertion, and still leave
> it very open (encouraging) to contributors.
>
>
> As for a wiki admin (requested above by Mark), I'd be happy to contribute
> and share that role. Who is the admin right now?
> --
> Josh I.
>
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