MediaWiki instead of Trac Wiki?

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:46:17PM -0500, Josh Sled wrote:
> WRT the abuse-level threshold tuning... we need to choose a specific
> mechanism, and I'm not going to spend time measuring the allowed and
> prevented abuse fractional rates or whatever.  Let's do one of these
> two:
> 
> - account creation with moderated editing approval, see how it goes and
> maybe relax it later to account-creation with unmoderated editing
> approval.  
> 
> - start more permissive, allowing anons to create accounts with edit
> perms by default, and regress iff spammers take hold.
> 

Oh, regarding choosing between these two: If the second case
corresponds to the restrictions at gnomesupport.org, then we already
have Christian's data on how much wiki-spam that causes.  We can
choose between them based on the acceptability (or unacceptability) of
that rate.  I think whoever is most likely to spend the most time
moderating should make that judgement, and I'm guessing that would be
Christian since he's already in the habit of moderating
gnomesupport.org.

Also, the focus tends toward the setting of the restriction-level
since that's viewed as a free-variable, but I want to re-emphasize
that lowering the cost of the corrective action is *really* important.
Any wiki should be read-only until those mechanisms are well-greased.

-chris