[ZWeb] Wiki spammer problem needs to be addressed ;(

Brian Lloyd brian at zope.com
Tue Nov 30 11:46:52 EST 2004


> > An idea (brainstorming here) would be to change the membership 
> > policy to require that members be 'sponsored' or approved by a 
> > current member. In the short term, we might also want to create 
> > a special role for editing wiki pages and remove that right from 
> > 'Member' until the membership policy change is in place. That 
> > might help prevent more wiki pages from being defaced in the 
> > short term while inconveniencing the smallest number of people
> > (who could ask to be granted the wiki editing right in the 
> > interim).
> 
> +1

Ok - for now, I changed it so that only 'Manager', 'Owner' and 
'PowerMember' can edit wiki pages or add comments. 

>  
> > The pages currently defaced can be recovered using history - 
> 
> we could if the history feature wasn't so buggy :-(

History only appears to work from the ZMI - the plone UI 
version barfs ;(


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