Hey guys, Yeah, the spam situation is unfortunate. If a few of us can monitor & approve new accounts I think we could make the confirmation extension approach work. What do you all think?
I'm in the middle of figuring out a big migration over to AWS, I will see about sneaking this change in sooner rather than later. Dan On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Mike Linksvayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I've no idea about HQ chores, but to be clear... > > The ConfirmAccounts extension requires someone with access to the host > the wiki is running on to install it. I've only installed on one wiki, > but don't recall it being difficult. > > The extension places an onerous "confirmation" step prior to getting > an account. I like this better than ones forcing eg a captcha for each > edit, which is annoying, and still leaves RecentChanges filled up with > spam account creations. > > An email notification is sent (configurable, probably to whoever gets > webmaster@cc these days) when an account is requested. > > Any admin can review and approve pending new accounts at > Special:ConfirmAccounts. Even if nobody reads the email notifications, > trusted people not working directly for CC can monitor ... there are > some inactive people in > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=sysop&limit=50 > but historically anyone trusted (eg an affiliate or with a long > history in other wikis) and wanting to help was made an admin. > > Mike > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:14 AM, BjornW <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> If I understand correctly there is no one at the moment from HQ who has >> time to pick these chores up? That's a shame, cause these spamlinks >> can't be good for CC.org pagerank. What can we do to install the tool >> mentioned by Mike? Btw in my own experience asking for confirmation will >> drastically reduce the amount of spam... >> >> grtz >> BjornW >> >> On 11-11-13 19:18, Maarten Zeinstra wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> That can only work when HQ wants to/can allocate resources to check >>> this, but otherwise I would agree that that would be the best option. >>> >>> Or do away with the Wiki altogether and use a different platform >>> communicate to our audiences. I only see 20 useful edits per >>> day: >>> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?namespace=0&title=Special%3ARecentChanges >>> en about 50 accounts created on that same day. >>> >>> It really depends on what the underlying idea is of using a wiki. >>> That's the true issue that HQ needs to discuss, either internally of >>> with the community. >>> >>> >>> 2013/11/11 Mike Linksvayer <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> >>> I somewhat sadly recommend installing >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> > I had a long discussion about the spam on the wiki about with >>> Nathan Kinkade about a year ago. There are several methods in >>> place to try and stop spammers. The ones that get through are >>> either placed by humans or using accounts that are created by >>> humans. It takes human effort to block them as it is, something >>> that CC-HQ had no personnel for at the time. >>> > >>> > I tried to help a bit, but it was tedious and not very useful. I >>> did remove all the nudity I could find in the mediastore of wiki >>> last year though. That is a task with things that cannot be unseen.. >>> > >>> > Best, >>> > >>> > Maarten >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Kennisland | www.kennisland.nl <http://www.kennisland.nl> | t >>> +31205756720 <tel:%2B31205756720> | m +31643053919 >>> <tel:%2B31643053919> | @mzeinstra >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On 11 Nov 2013, at 12:36 , BjornW <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Hi, >>> >> >>> >> I just noticed some spam links on the CC wiki. See >>> >> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Services in the paragraph >>> >> 'Documentation' there are words like 'sepatu' linking to an url >>> I won't >>> >> repeat here. >>> >> >>> >> Not sure if this is the only page, but perhaps someone of CC HQ >>> could >>> >> run some sort of spam link checker over the wiki? >>> >> >>> >> grtz >>> >> BjornW >>> >> -- >>> >> >>> >> met vriendelijke groet, >>> >> Bjorn Wijers >>> >> >>> >> * b u r o b j o r n .nl * >>> >> digitaal vakmanschap | digital craftsmanship >>> >> >>> >> Werkdagen: >>> >> Van maandag t/m donderdag vanaf 10:00 >>> >> Vrijdag is voor experimenteren en eigen projecten. >>> >> >>> >> Postbus 14145 >>> >> 3508 SE Utrecht >>> >> The Netherlands >>> >> >>> >> tel: +31 6 49 74 78 70 <tel:%2B31%206%2049%2074%2078%2070> >>> >> http://www.burobjorn.nl >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> cc-devel mailing list >>> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > cc-devel mailing list >>> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> met vriendelijke groet, >> Bjorn Wijers >> >> * b u r o b j o r n .nl * >> digitaal vakmanschap | digital craftsmanship >> >> Werkdagen: >> Van maandag t/m donderdag vanaf 10:00 >> Vrijdag is voor experimenteren en eigen projecten. >> >> Postbus 14145 >> 3508 SE Utrecht >> The Netherlands >> >> tel: +31 6 49 74 78 70 >> http://www.burobjorn.nl >> > _______________________________________________ > cc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
