Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice WikiHelp discussion

Regardless if its spam posting or editing of a pages its all moderated 
so if there is spam its automatically denied. also they have it to where 
you have to have a login to be able to do any editing. CAPTCHA can also 
help mitigate spam and bots when users sign up to be able to do any 
editing of any wiki page.

On 13/12/2010 13:00, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 18:57 +0800, David Nelson wrote:
> > Personally, I like the idea of editing the help on the wiki rather than offline.
> > But could the problem be solved by creating a user group on the wiki and
> > only allowing editing rights for that group's users? Then we could add selected
> > devs, i10n and docs people to that group?
>         Sure, by inspection, it is a trivial solution to this problem of
> random / un-controlled user editing / spamming - notice the help is not
> in the existing wiki, but a separate one anyway.
>
>         OTOH - it seems like we have a tooling gap with the existing plan, so -
> lets see where that goes. It may even be that different languages prefer
> different approaches to help editing, wiki or not wiki - who knows; but
> the tool is there, and (to me) looks quite cool :-) and it provides
> useful search, and cross-linking for read-only on-line help today.
>
>         ATB,
>
>                 Michael.