Re: Re: GNU Arch wiki being moved

Thanks for your concern.  I did not examine the data in the early days but
recent contributions mostly came from explicitly logged in user accounts.
However, what you say is valid and I may remove the restriction for a while
to see how it goes.  Recently the spam on the wiki has been somewhat
annoying.

Andy

On 6/15/06, Sylvain Beucler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Now only login users can edit pages, to avoid spam.
> Do you have some stats about the kind of contributions we get on the
> wiki (authenticated, not-authenticated)?
> If non-authenticated changes represent a decent part of the
> contributions, then we should consider accepting anonymous changes
> again and remove spam after the fact.
> I would rather get spam and more contributions instead of neither of
> them.
> If however anonymous contributions represent a negligeable part of the
> changes, there's no problem in requiring authentication.
> As far as I'm concerned, I remember not contributing to wikis when a
> 15s change became 5 tedious minutes to create the account and store
> the credentials somewhere :/
>
> Sylvain
>