I think an attractive wiki is definitely a plus. But let's face it I didn't do much for the wiki. The spam got really bad and I thought it was bad to have you keep blocking and undo-ing all those spam edits. When I implemented CAPTCHA I was surprised to find out it is next to useless. I mean, wow, you'd have thought a technology from Google actually did something? All this is a learning experience.
So when CAPTCHA didn't work I closed the registrations. Manual registrations is an extra step that prevent the occasional impulse edit, which could turn into returning editors, and that was probably really bad for the wiki.
I wish I had thought of the forum authentication sooner, but it only made sense since the troll incident that got me into implementing much better spam prevention on the forum. So now it makes perfect sense, not only 99.99% of spam bots ever bother to reply to the custom question on the registration, they are checked against a third party spammer IP list. If any gets through nonetheless, I am now aware of a "user merge" extension that could definitely remove them.
For the remaining custom styles that's ok.. actually if you like you can keep a little bit of colour in the table heads similar to Guild Wars Wiki. And generalize that, based on existing classes in the wiki skin. When it's just table heads and other "heading" type elements, it will translate across other skins. Though I think the pastel colors on the front page work much better along with the monochromatic base than the yellowish ones. If I make a koohii skin the coloured table heads are likely to fit in with little changes.
So when CAPTCHA didn't work I closed the registrations. Manual registrations is an extra step that prevent the occasional impulse edit, which could turn into returning editors, and that was probably really bad for the wiki.
I wish I had thought of the forum authentication sooner, but it only made sense since the troll incident that got me into implementing much better spam prevention on the forum. So now it makes perfect sense, not only 99.99% of spam bots ever bother to reply to the custom question on the registration, they are checked against a third party spammer IP list. If any gets through nonetheless, I am now aware of a "user merge" extension that could definitely remove them.
For the remaining custom styles that's ok.. actually if you like you can keep a little bit of colour in the table heads similar to Guild Wars Wiki. And generalize that, based on existing classes in the wiki skin. When it's just table heads and other "heading" type elements, it will translate across other skins. Though I think the pastel colors on the front page work much better along with the monochromatic base than the yellowish ones. If I make a koohii skin the coloured table heads are likely to fit in with little changes.