[Foundation-l] guarding a wiki

[Dori]

On 4/16/05, Walter van Kalken <walter at 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.