Re: future of TMDA

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:39:53AM -0600, Jason R. Mastaler wrote:

> unlocked it, so I've closed it up again.  The whole point of a Wiki is
> freedom to make changes and add new content, so I'm unsure what the
> best way would be to insure this while also protecting it from robots
> designed to populate it with ad links, porn, and other garbage.  Any
> ideas?

Well, I'm not sure how well moin-moin supports such things, but other
wikis can require registration and apply ACLs to pages. It looks like
moin-moin 1.3.4 supports such features; maybe an upgrade is in order?

Requiring users to be approved before editing the wiki reduces the
wikiness a bit, but still leaves it much more open and manageable than
having no wiki at all.

I'm really surprised that no wiki has yet implemented a call-back style
authentication mechanism for granting access, such as mailman, tmda
itself, or the old BBS callback verifiers used to use. It wouldn't
*prevent* defacements, of course, but it would sure cut down on
*anonymous* ones.

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