Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to use a wiki to annotate GHC Docs? was Re: [Haskell] Re: Making Haskell more open

Matijs Erisson:

Malcolm Wallace writes:

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... And avoid getting screwed up by malicious folk?

... but I believe there are a number of people who regularly review all the "Recent Changes" and undertake to 'undo' any malicious/inaccurate modifications.

I suspect this would end up adding /more/ work to central maintainers, rather than less.

Recently the Haskell Wiki went from anonymous edits to logged-in edits because of the tremendous amount of wikispam, so I agree with this. On the good side, it's easy to create an account.

I don't think restricting editing to registered users is a significant turn off if registration is simple.

On the bad side, at some point spambots will notice this too.

We can use the same techniques that web sites like slashdot.org use to prevent bots from registering accounts. Manuel