From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen document day (Oct 12 or 26) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:40:14 +0700 Message-ID: References: <4E92D809.9000504@xen.org> <20111010160404.GB28646@phenom.oracle.com> <4E946EB9.7050209@xen.org> <20111013180244.GC15499@phenom.oracle.com> <5400260811821008556@unknownmsgid> <1318859996.16132.16.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <4E9C4516.2070902@xen.org> <1318864667.16132.22.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <4E9C4BAB.9020605@xen.org> <20111026195543.GA6558@phenom.dumpdata.com> <4EA932D5.3060504@xen.org> <4EAAA467.2030503@xen.org> <1320053473.23193.15.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1320053473.23193.15.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Campbell Cc: Florian Heigl , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Andrew Bobulsky , Lars Kurth , Joseph Glanville , "xen-users@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 20:58 +0000, Florian Heigl wrote: >> - most of the pages being immutable so you couldn't even fix stuff. > > This one is a protective measure against spammers (which have been a big > problem in the past). I sure hope media wiki has some better mechanisms > than requiring every account to be manually authorised as an editor (I'm > sure it must do!). It's a big barrier to "drive by fixups" as well as > presenting an initial barrier which even longer term contributors have > to cross. For comparison purposes, the approach taken by wiki.freeradius.org looks good: http://wiki.freeradius.org/New%20Wiki It uses Github, Facebook, or Twitter account for login, trusting those providers to filter-out spammers to a certain degree. -- Fajar