OpenMoko wiki needs to be set to read-only due to spam

[Paul Wise]

On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 18:57 -0500, Harry Prevor wrote:

> Sorry for bringing this somewhat old topic up, but why did this have
> to be done? I can understand restricting editing to registered users
> only or adding CAPTCHAs to prevent spam, but isn't making the (still
> very important) wiki entirely read only very exccessive? I've found a
> few pages with errors but I'm now unable to edit them, seemingly
> forever. Please reconsider this.

The only sysadmin (Harald) doesn't yet have time to setup some anti-spam
mechanisms. I've volunteered as a second sysadmin but Harald hasn't had
time to do some things that are needed before he can add me to the team.
Making the wiki read-only is a stop-gap measure until some anti-spam
stuff can be setup and all the spam pages removed by myself or Harald.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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