[okfn-help] Locking pages on wiki.okfn.org

Wed Jul 13 12:47:55 UTC 2011

Excerpts from Jonathan Gray's message of 2011-07-13 14:24:46 +0200:
> I keep deleting spam on: http://wiki.okfn.org/OGDCamp
>
> For now this is a critical, high value page. I am sending the link to
> lots of important people (e.g. from UN, White House, national
> governments, etc) so I'd prefer it not to be spammed.
> 
> Is there any way I can lock the page for now to prevent anyone other
> than myself from editing it?
> 
> Given the tradeoff between:
> 
>   (i) let anyone edit and firefight spam with extra hours per week
> that I don't currently have
>   (ii) have this locked down, and people can contact me asking
> permission to edit, or to ask me to edit things
>
> I'd much, much prefer (ii).
> 
> J.
> 

How about using captcha? I guess it works well with stopping many spambots...