Moderating user registrations will require some MW tweaking, and plugins if they even exist. I can turn off new user registration, or the capability for anyone to make edits, etc quite easily however. But then it's more of a "controlled editor" atmosphere than a true wiki, but that seems to be plenty useful
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> wrote: > No, the captcha is there but spammers work around it. I'm not sure but > I think they simply hire cheap labor in Asia and Africa to manually > type in their spam. The only spam-protection that I've found to really > work are the services mollom and akismet that do spam-filtering on a > global scale, mostly based on the links embedded in a post. I don't > know if a plugin to these exists for mediawiki. > > Since we are not a hyper-active project, it's easier to simply have > all accounts blocked until approved. (If you guys are unsure of your > attentiveness, please add me as admin. We also want to make sure that > proper users are still approved in a timely manner.) > > Crews: When doing that change, you should consider adding some text > that people should write an email to drizzle-discuss after registering > on the wiki. The problem is that you'll continue to get spam users > registering themselves on a weekly basis, so it will be impossible to > notice one or two legitimate ones. The best way is to just ask them to > send a ping to the mailing list (what spammers won't do). > > henrik > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Michael Shadle <[email protected]> wrote: >> I thought I changed the settings on there and added captcha stuff at least. >> Mediawiki is a pile. I don't mind saying it publicly. If anyone knows how to >> configure it better I am all ears. I need to look to see what I did to it, I >> had made changes to that around the same time as another wiki and may be >> getting confused. I had tried a couple anti-spam modules but couldn't even >> confirm if they were working 100% (see comment about MW being a pile) >> >> >> >> On Jan 28, 2012, at 3:45 PM, pcrews <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There are a number of garbage / spam pages that have been added that we >>> can't delete either. I'm going through to try to blank the content until >>> we can properly remove them. >>> >>> On 01/28/2012 04:38 PM, Henrik Ingo wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> We have been notified by a friendly netizen that our wiki is full of >>>> spam. Indeed: >>>> >>>> http://wiki.drizzle.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=100 >>>> http://wiki.drizzle.org/Special:ListUsers >>>> >>>> There's more spam than normal activity. >>>> >>>> I propose that: >>>> >>>> - we change the settings on the wiki such that users must be approved >>>> by an administrator before they can post anything. >>>> >>>> - this also makes it possible to remove the captcha stuff (since we >>>> can then trust all users) which will greatly enhance usability. >>>> >>>> I don't have admin rights so please Mike or someone else do the above >>>> urgently. >>>> >>>> We then also need to clean up all the spam. Any help there is welcome. >>>> >>>> henrik >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > -- > [email protected] > +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo > www.openlife.cc > > My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
