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I emailed the folks from Local Wiki (thanks, Phillip!) and they suggested looking into Media Wiki's anti-spam measures. Apparently it is popular enough that people write bots for it.

The anti-spam page is here. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features The very first thing it says is that many of the anti-spam features aren't activated by default, so that's promising.

Angel

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Dustin @ NBW - Philadelphia PA <dustin@neighborhoodbikeworks.org> wrote:

> I'm not highly in favour of making registration to the wiki wait for
> moderators approval if there's a way to easily change the current captcha
> validation. You'll still have the major contributors joining up but I would
> be afraid that some of the smaller contributers just wouldn't bother.

Agreed -- I feel like 50% of our users log in once to say, change the
hours for their co-op, and it would take too much effort for them to
follow through on registration. Maybe this is where the "Approved
Revs" extension could help us?

D.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Godwin ! <goodgodwin@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Here here. I would be really nice to have more than just the wiki there
> eventually but currently that's really the only thing offered and it seems
> outside most people's capacity for the time being to do much more with it.
> I'm not highly in favour of making registration to the wiki wait for
> moderators approval if there's a way to easily change the current captcha
> validation. You'll still have the major contributors joining up but I would
> be afraid that some of the smaller contributers just wouldn't bother.
> .g
>
>
>> From: samh@samh.net
>> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:12:24 -0600
>> To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org
>> Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike Collective Wiki is under attack and we
>> need your help.
>>
>> > While we're talking about bikecollective.org changes, how about making
>> > the wiki the default landing page for the site?
>>
>> I second that motion.
>>
>> - Sam
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