Wiki challenge question on user account creation

[King InuYasha]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 14:07 +0800, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> > Actually if there are a lot of user account creation every day in the
> > Wine wiki then there is something wrong with it. There are not that
> > much Wine developers and probably some active testers/appdb
> > maintainers, who else could pretend to have a user account in the Wine
> > wiki?
>
> I don't think we have all that many. The wiki is up for a few years,
> and we have <2700 accounts, I'd suspect most of them are valid accounts.
>
> If spammers would create them automatically, we would have see
> a lot more I'd think.
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> > > Moreover it will add additional maintenance
> > > burden on our part to keep the captchas operational.
> >
> > Isn't that an one time effort?
>
> Not sure -- if this is not integrated in the base version,
> it will create problems every time we need to do an upgrade.
> Moin is great, but they break things all the time between
> versions, it's already a pain to do the upgrades...
>
> --
> Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
> Lattica, Inc.
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Why are we using Moin anyways? I know Fedora used to use Moin and they moved
off of it for their wiki, and I honestly think that perhaps WineHQ needs to
as well.
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