Disabling anon editing should be a last resort, I think. Though making confirm edit captcha for new external links seems like a solution we can try. Can you add that, Angela?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2008 1:38 AM, Allen Stern <
<a href="mailto:allen@centernetworks.com">allen@centernetworks.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I agree with that Angela - any external linking would easily create more
<br>spam. At the same time, this would assume that the search engine itself<br>will show the best results first. I noted this in my review:<br><a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/wikia-search-goes-live" target="_blank">
http://www.centernetworks.com/wikia-search-goes-live</a><br><br>Keeping spam out of the mini articles will be a factor in success for<br>this search engine.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- Allen<br></font><div><div></div>
<div class="Wj3C7c"><br>Angela wrote:<br>> Is there any need for external links in mini-articles? An easy way to<br>> cut the spam would just be to prevent them totally, allowing only<br>> internal links for "see-also" and interwiki links to Wikipedia.
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