[infrastructure-dev] Changes in the OOoWiki backend

There as been a lot of link spam on the OOoWiki the past few days.  I'm 
tired of chasing it, and I imagine the other Admins are too.... so I've 
added some code to the LocalSettings.php file to block all edits and 
page creation to new confirmed accounts.  After a 4 day "cooling off 
period" then the new user accounts will have edit and page creation 
rights.  Hopefully this is long enough that the Spammers get bored and 
leave... but new users come back.

There are very very few new legitimate users compared to spam accounts 
anyway... and of those new legitimate users maybe one per month actually 
edits a page.  The impact of this change on legitimate users should be 
very low.

See: 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Wiki_maintenance/LocalSettings.php_modifications#Block_new_users_from_editing_or_creating_new_pages_for_4_days 
for details of the change.

C.
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