Galen Charlton wrote:
To combat a recent spate of spamming on the wiki [1], in order to edit a page the wiki now requires that your account has a confirmed email address. [...]
Is that barrier to entry really necessary? It looked like the recent spammers were creating pages - could page creation alone be restricted, or was there page-editing spamming that others cleaned before I saw? And it looks like spam page creation is continuing unhindered by this new requirement, but it prevents me doing anything about them. Cheers m'dears(!) I remember what we were told: "There are many extensions which provide spam protection in MediaWiki. [...] the Koha community should not need to use spam defences which are not implemented reasonably." -- Thomas Dukleth, 22 Apr 2010 Perhaps the MediaWiki supporters could suggest a more reasonable spam defence? Frustrated, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha