[Foundation-l] guarding a wiki

[Jimmy Wales]

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Dori wrote:
> 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.

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
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