Hi Ivo!
So it was you whom I was colliding with ; )
Apologies for the lack of coordination, but once I looked at that spam,
I had to start deleting <g>.
Not sure where things stand on access rights / additional admins /
account removals.
Cheers,
Patrick
On 02/02/2012 06:08 PM, Ivo Roper wrote:
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
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