[pydotorg-www] Changing default wiki permissions

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 10:36:05 CET 2013


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:13 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> We're currently working on setting up the new VM with the
> Python and Jython wikis.
>
> In order to increase security and also to help a bit with
> avoiding spam/vandalism, we'd like to disable editing
> of wiki pages without login.
>
> Any objections ?
>

What was the monthly amount of posts from anonymous spammers?
What was the ratio of spam posts of anonymous vs registered spammers?

If the both parameters are low, I'd be -1. In other 'words':

if monthly.spam.unreg < 5 and monthly.spam.unreg/float(monthly.spam.reg) <
1:
   registration.disable()
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