[Vtigercrm-developers] The wiki is a mess

[Gopal]

Dear Team,
I am the maintainer of the Wiki on vtiger Site.
The idea behind Wiki is community share their knowledge among themselves and write useful content for the benefit of other users. Off late, it is misused by some of the spammers.
Keeping this in mind I have locked some of the regularly visited pages so that people looking for needed info shouldn't affected by spammers. In fact I have created most of the content and updating periodically during releases.
 Mike Fedyk: I think we need moderation for wiki and forum accounts.
Gopal: Currently all guest posts on Forums are moderated. Time to time I am cleaning unlocked Spam pages. We need some better system, weher only registered users only can write content. In fact I have seen may spam users registered in Wiki. 
Mike Fedyk: Richie, I need access to the locked wiki pages.
Gopal: I will let you know personally, once I unlocked the pages. Please contact me at skype: sripadag or gopals (at) vtiger.com
Mike Fedyk: What wiki are we using now?

All of the wiki help pages are blank.  Is it mediawiki?  When changing 
formatting, all of the mediawiki formatting worked as described in 
wikipedia.
Gopal: Yes we are using mediawiki. I have to upgrade to latest version.
Mike Lieman:  The real question is:  Once we revert it, how do we prevent it?
Gopal: We can allow only registered users to write the content. But the spammers register as users in Wiki and do all the evils. Even Wikipedia is not spared.
vtigercrmFrance: A plug-in phpbb  exist for mediawiki.
This plug-in sync phpbb account with mediawiki account.
If you use it, and only allow edit for registered user, you have no spam.
We use it on vtigercrmfrance.org wiki, we have no spam.
URL : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PHPBB/Users_Integration
Gopal: Yes, there is a pluign exisits, but it works on 1.5.x and above. First I have to upgrade our Wiki. I think you have already implemented in vtigercrmfrance wiki. I will discuss with you in upgrading the existing WIki setup. 
Team, I welcome all your suggestions on improving the quality of Wiki service, so that we can create a better centralized help system for the vtiger community.
Best Regards,
Gopal

S.S.G.Gopal 
Blog: http://gopal.vtiger.com 
Skype: sripadag 
Toll Free: +1 877 788 4437 





----mfedyk at mikefedyk.com wrote ---- 


Webmaster wrote:

>A plug-in phpbb exist for mediawiki.
>This plug-in sync phpbb account with mediawiki account.
>If you use it, and only allow edit for registered user, you have no spam.
>We use it on vtigercrmfrance.org wiki, we have no spam.
>URL : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PHPBB/Users_Integration
>
What wiki are we using now?

All of the wiki help pages are blank. Is it mediawiki? When changing 
formatting, all of the mediawiki formatting worked as described in 
wikipedia.
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