Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Re: xowiki 0.20

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41: Re: Re: xowiki 0.20 (response to 40)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 04/15/06 12:07 AM
vandalism fighting is more of an issue when anonymous users edit or add pages. the site administrator can define who gets edit permissions on an xowiki instance basis. oacs has means to ban users. xowiki has variuos means to locate recent modifications and keeps a history of the changes that one can switch back to earlier versions.

I am not saying that we don't need better mechanism for such purposes, but we are in a different situation than the oridinary wiki. Currently i am more thinking about making the package more powerful.

btw., the good thing of an open source project is that everyone can contribute...

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42: Re: Re: Re: xowiki 0.20 (response to 41)
Posted by Daniël Mantione on 04/17/06 12:10 PM
OpenACS can ban users, but not IP-addresses. The only way to stop vandals is to require user approval before they can join which is a bit against the Wiki idea. I'll consider contributing some code.

Comparing XoWiki to MediaWiki (which is what we currently run), the latter one has functionality to revert changes directly from the recentchanges screen, and clicking on a username directly shows his contributions. This is (of course) no criticism against XoWiki, just an analysis what makes the latter one powerfull.

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43: Re: Re: Re: Re: xowiki 0.20 (response to 42)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 05/16/06 01:38 PM

OpenACS can ban users, but not IP-addresses. The only way to stop vandals is to require user approval before they can join which is a bit against the Wiki idea.
Good point. By looking the the increasing number of spam content on openacs.org, it looks like a good idea to ban sites (i.e. not allowing a login from banned IP-addresses or subnets) as well. The same mechanism could be used for all user-contributed content, i.e. wiki-pages, forum posts, comments on pages, oacs company listings, etc...