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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:13 am Posts: 6451 Location: Geneva NY Has thanked: 1387 times Have thanks: 1037 times 
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Post # 288936
 Wiki registration open for 24hWe have had the Wiki new user registration turned off because of high spam pressure.
We opened it today for new user registration, and will close it again at the end of 24 hours. We are considering making this permanent: i.e., a short "registration period" once a month, or something like that. Thoughts? Jerry _________________ A Wiki only works when many eyes are on it. 32bit, 2.6.36-1-mepis-pae, KDE 4.6.5, AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core, Dell SP2309W with integrated webcam, Nvidia GeForce 6150SE, 4 GB DDR2 |
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| Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:35 am |
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MEPIS Enthusiast  Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:54 am Posts: 9176 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. Has thanked: 2712 times Have thanks: 574 times
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Post # 288937
Re: Wiki registration open for 24h That should help. But I thought it was set so that only members here were allowed to register there. Is that not the case?
_________________ "There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." Alan K. Simpson |
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| Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:45 am |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:13 am Posts: 6451 Location: Geneva NY Has thanked: 1387 times Have thanks: 1037 times
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Post # 288938
Re: Wiki registration open for 24h It is not. There is no automatic way, I am told, to check new registrants against Forum members. Same with the Community website. I do that manually on a daily basis...
_________________ A Wiki only works when many eyes are on it. 32bit, 2.6.36-1-mepis-pae, KDE 4.6.5, AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core, Dell SP2309W with integrated webcam, Nvidia GeForce 6150SE, 4 GB DDR2 |
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| Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:54 am |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:54 am Posts: 9176 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. Has thanked: 2712 times Have thanks: 574 times
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Post # 288946
Re: Wiki registration open for 24h Thank you for that. I suppose it's just something that has to be lived with for now.
_________________ "There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." Alan K. Simpson |
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| Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:32 pm |
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MEPIS Novice  Joined: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:04 pm Posts: 69 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands Has thanked: 16 times Have thanks: 13 times
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Post # 288950
Re: Wiki registration open for 24h Well... you might want to reconsider - first spammer has hit already:
http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php? ... _postei_31 I guess you should pick whatever method is most efficient for you (regarding dealing with spam, handling new registrations), as long as there is a reasonable convenient way for users to register. Easy registration encourages contribution to the wiki - if users can only register once a month that might discourage people to do a spontaneous contribution. Isn't it possible to add a Captcha to the registration page? _________________ HP Probook 4310s - Intel Core2 Duo T6670, 3GB memory, Intel GMA 4500MHD grapics, Intel wifi - MEPIS 11 (32 bits), kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp, KDE 4.7.4 |
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| Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:56 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:13 am Posts: 6451 Location: Geneva NY Has thanked: 1387 times Have thanks: 1037 times
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Post # 289039
Re: Wiki registration open for 24h Wiki registration is closed again. We had 3 spammers in that period, not too bad--don't know about the captcha, I believe the software is quite out of date at this point.
We will open registration again next month for a day, and anyone who just can't wait should PM me. _________________ A Wiki only works when many eyes are on it. 32bit, 2.6.36-1-mepis-pae, KDE 4.6.5, AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core, Dell SP2309W with integrated webcam, Nvidia GeForce 6150SE, 4 GB DDR2 |
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| Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:13 pm |
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MEPIS Guide   Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:30 pm Posts: 1243 Location: Flinthills of Kansas, USA Has thanked: 183 times Have thanks: 112 times
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Post # 289043
Re: Wiki registration open for 24h Personally I have always thought that wiki registration should be automatic for registered forum users and by request or application for others.
 Jerry_________________ http://patentabsurdity.com/ Toshiba Tecra M-6 Laptop 1.6Ghz core duo, 1.5g ram, 12M wlan "beware a frequent flirt with potential disaster" |
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| Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:21 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:13 am Posts: 6451 Location: Geneva NY Has thanked: 1387 times Have thanks: 1037 times
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Post # 289049
Re: Wiki registration open for 24h Apparently not possible.
_________________ A Wiki only works when many eyes are on it. 32bit, 2.6.36-1-mepis-pae, KDE 4.6.5, AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core, Dell SP2309W with integrated webcam, Nvidia GeForce 6150SE, 4 GB DDR2 |
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| Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:16 am |
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MEPIS Guide  Joined: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:53 am Posts: 2190 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Has thanked: 594 times Have thanks: 510 times
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Post # 289052
Re: Wiki registration open for 24h
The wiki was once connected to the old MEPIS.org forum and had automatic registration. That was a very different software. Henry |
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| Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:33 am |
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MEPIS Guide  Joined: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:02 pm Posts: 1869 Location: New Zealand BOP Has thanked: 20 times Have thanks: 275 times
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Post # 289196
Re: Wiki registration open for 24h I think users should be qualified through the forums first and agree wholeheartedly with the once a month registration period if that will keep the low life away.
Mike P _________________ Mike P Regd Linux User #472293 (1)Lenovo e520, i7-2640M, 8GB, 500GB Seagate Hybrid, M11-RoadblockB-64 (2) Asus M4A88TD-M, AMD Phenom II x4 955 CPU, Radeon HD 4250, 4Gb, 1.5TB, M11-64 |
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