Hmm... Since I can't see the admin interface it's hard to have any enlightened opinion, but...
Isn't there a setting where anyone can register themselves but cannot actually make edits until an admin gives them more rights / marks them as verified. I remember many MediaWiki installations have this in relation to my email verification: I could only edit content after verifying my email. henrik On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Michael Shadle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- [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
