I've not written my own wiki or blog system, and not thought about this problem at all. Given that, what if a form of "email authentication" was used to approve wiki edits and blog comments? (I think I've seen this somewhere but can't get google to remind me where.)
- Someone edits a wiki page or adds a comment.
- The change is suspended until "authenticated".
- At this point the person enters an email address (of some determinably accountable, non-transient nature).
- The change or some indication is sent to the email address.
- Upon receipt of the response or via an http form in the email, the change is accepted.
- In addition to other filtering and governing, the site now also has an email address.
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That seems to be a great idea - I'd replace my dumb CAPTCHA solution with something like that in a minute.
The blogs hosted by Weblogs Inc. (www.weblogsinc.com) already do this. They send a link to the address you give when you post a comment. Your comment only shows up when you access the URL they've sent. It seems nice.
-john p. speno
It might not work for wiki sites for concurrency reasons. In theory one particular blog entry could have a series of queued up changes. However, the second writer would overwrite the first's changes because they couldn't see them.
Its the classic last write wins problem.
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