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Subject: Re: The return of the Homebrew-PCBs Wiki

From: "James Newton" <jamesmichaelnewton@...>
Date: 2009-06-01

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Alessio Sangalli <alesan@...> wrote:
>
> Philip Pemberton wrote:
>
> > Anyone is welcome to edit the Wiki, but you can't do so anonymously -- this is
> > mainly to prevent (or at least try and prevent) spam posts and malicious editing.
>
>
> I totally disagree with this. First I also have wikis, blogs, etc, and
> spammers have no trouble to register.
>
> Second, this way you are cutting away a good deal of users that might
> improve your wiki dramatically, but are annoyed to register on yet
> another system.
>
> bye
> as
>


This has also been my experience. http://techref.massmind.org doesn't require any registration to post new information. It checks for common spam words, and has a system that keeps the spam that does get posted from being seen by anyone other than the poster until I remove it, which I can do with a single click. Lots of people contribute now, but when I started I required registration and no one else used it.

Best wishes.