[Moin-user] Empty directories

[Kai Jaeger]

Recently I noticed that clicking on a Category page took much longer
than it should: roughly 30-40 seconds.

I checked the directory structure and found 18,000 empty folders!

Because of the spammers one cannot create a page in the wiki in
question without answering a stupid question. That works well but when
somebody requests a page that does not exist yet than a new folder is
created despite the user getting the message "You are not allowed to
edit this page". And because they are doing this via a program I end
up very soon with thousands of empty folders.

Is there anything that can be done to improve this?


Kai