[e-lang] wiki clock wrong? Also, access control...

[Mark Miller]

<http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges> shows changes
made tomorrow.

More interestingly, I notice that virtually all recent changes are
either made by spambots, or made by us to reverse the damage, and to
banish the accounts of the spambots. Spambots can easily have more
patience in creating accounts than we can have in reacting, so we're
currently vulnerable to this form of Sybil attack. Should we instead
shift to requiring new accounts to be manually approved?

Given that Wikipedia is clearly more of a target than we are, and that
they would seem to be even more vulnerable than we are (they don't
require a login before posting), I don't understand how they survive.
Can anyone explain how they handle these issues?

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    --MarkM