Hi folks, I'm a friend of Brian and Mark's in Seattle. I removed roughly a dozen such articles, as far back as mid-2011, and it was clear that at least one other person was removing them at the same time. There were a few main culprit accounts in the format of FirstnameLastname, I don't know if those have been deleted yet.
Thank you for bringing it up! Ivo On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]>wrote: > Guys, did anyone actually do anything about this? If you don't have > the time to take care of it, then please share admin rights with > people that do. > > henrik > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > [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 >
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