<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:46 AM, David Gerard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgerard@gmail.com">dgerard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2009/3/5 King InuYasha <<a href="mailto:ngompa13@gmail.com">ngompa13@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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> A wiki shouldn't have users creating accounts every day, that is a bad<br>
> indicator.<br>
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</div>It is difficult to understand the thinking behind such a statement<br>
unless you are literally aiming to close a project to outside<br>
participation.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><div>Sorry, I should have completed my thought. If you can justify users creating accounts every day and adding real content to the wiki, then that is fine. But in most cases, when wikis have lots of users creating accounts every day, generally some serious spamming is going on or is about to go on. Now, WineHQ is a high-activity site, so there is some justification for having lots of users, but take care to use basic precautions when having users created. My two favorite methods of ensuring users are actually real ones are email confirm and CAPTCHA, usually a combination of the two. If you still see similarly high levels of user creation and real content is being added, then its ok. However, if you use an old version of any web content software, then the benefits may be negated by the fact that it is possible that the wiki engine had already been compromised.</div>