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Dori wrote:
On 4/16/05, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:
If every active member takes one "dead" wiki under his/her guide by guarding it (and having sysop rights to delete trash) against spam and immediately greating and talking to newcomers. Than we do not have to lock inactive wikis! Just a check once every two or three days suffices like I do at Laotian. You do not really have to speak the language.
This won't work when you have to deal with bots. In two to three days they could have created hundreds of thousands of pages. The worst is when there are existing pages which could have been edited and moved a hundred times where the only efficient way would be to restore the database.
Dori has a point of course, but do we really have this problem?
If so, then "soft closing" might be a good solution to explore. A "soft closed" wiki requires a captcha for posting, disallows external links, implements the 'nofollow' tag, etc.
- --Jimbo