[Koha] Koha wiki maintenance change

[MJ Ray]

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,
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