[EM] Electorama wiki requires login to view????

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 06/12/2013 07:04 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote:

> Responding to Abd's points: We're operating under very different
> parameters than, say, a Wikimedia-operated wiki like Wikiversity.  In
> particular, we don't have the infrastructure to deal with user creation
> spam.  There are big advantages to sharing spam fighting resources with
> Wikipedia.

I imagine that using some spam-deterring plugins would go a lot of the 
way. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam . I don't 
know this, though, as I haven't administered any Mediawiki sites myself.