On 10/12/06, Michael Brenner <mik.admin(a)nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
Hi everybody,
we've got a MediaWiki installation on our university. For fighting spam
anonymous edits are disallowed with the "poor solution"[1] method. But there
might be a little bit better solution with the attached code[2] to only
disallow anonymous edits outside our intranet. Since non of use is a wiki
expert we're wondering can this do any harm to our database?
It won't harm anything, as far as I can see...
...but a better overall approach might be to lock down anonymous edits
totally, and use an authentication plugin to communicate via LDAP with
your university's main IT infrastructure. A little bit of clever
playing with the AutoAuthenticate hook could then make logging in
invisible for students.
Rob Church