Re: [Libvir] Wiki Pages?

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:47:37AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > My previous experience hosting a Wiki on xmlsoft.org (a.k.a. libvirt.org) > has been rather painful, admitedly that was a few years ago ... > I'm not sure what's the best way, hosting yet another wiki or reusing > an existing one. > Wikis, as you point out, require active management. I'm running several low-traffic OCaml wikis (might as well advertise them: http://ocaml-tutorial.org/ and http://cocan.org/) with reasonable success. We require authenticated email addresses for all editing, a diff of all edits are CC'd daily to subscribers, and we have people who act as editors for particular pages / sections of the wiki. This has controlled spam reasonably successfully. One Ubuntu developer who shall remain nameless turned out to have a sideline in blackhat "SEO" (wiki spamming) and actually signed up with his valid email address to spam the wiki. This was spotted almost instantly and he was kicked off. We had another case where someone signed up using http://mailinator.com and set up a http://bugmenot.com account which we also found quickly and eliminated. The daily emailed diffs of the whole wiki, plus the ability to roll back a day, basically make any long-term wiki spam impossible to carry out (or so we think ...[1]) The benefits of all this management can be useful, user-driven resources, and _if_ carefully structured and edited, this can be better than Google + mailing lists or asking the same questions over and over on IRC. Just my 2p (about $1). Rich. [1] And if you think of a way, rather than making lots of work for our editors by "proving" it, just email me OK?