[Box Backup] Boxbackup Wiki abuse?

[Martin Ebourne]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 14:41 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> > I just made a minor update on the following Wiki Page 
> > http://boxbackup.hostworks.ca/index.php/Checking_the_storage_space_used_on_the_server#On_the_server 
> > and found the following text containing hundreds of links at the bottom 
> > of the edit box. If you look at the html-source these hidden links seem 
> > to be on every page in the wiki...
> 
> Yes, I've seen it too, I think we all have. The question is what we can do 
> about it, without closing our wiki to new registrations, which makes it 
> much less useful.
> 
> I haven't hacked mediawiki but perhaps we can make it request a password 
> from new users, that they can get from our website or from the mailing 
> list?
> 
> Otherwise we could just live with it, since it doesn't actually damage our 
> content. Like spam, it may be a fact of life in open communities.

You could give the password either in a graphic (quite common now) or
even just in the text - bots can't read! If mediawiki allows this it
would be well worthwhile.

Cheers,

Martin.