On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Frederick Grose <fgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Ian Piumarta <piuma...@speakeasy.net>wrote:
>
>> {...}
>
>
>>
> I have enabled account creation. (IIRC it was disabled following the vpri
>> wiki being hacked.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ian
>>
>
> The wiki software version is quite old. I recommend that it be upgraded to
> MediaWiki version 1.17 when it is released (soon).
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2011-June/037503.html
>
> The new account spam has been a major problem recently. I recommend that
> we install the OpenID extension,
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
>
> and use it exclusively for new account authentication, as we have at Sugar
> Labs:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Special:OpenIDLogin&returnto=Special:UserLogin
>
> (The Loginprompt system message
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/MediaWiki:Loginprompt
> is modified to direct those seeking new accounts to the OpenID page.)
>
> Existing users needn't change their accounts.
>
>
> Best wishes, --Fred
> (wiki.sugarlabs.org coordinator)
>
Wiki spamming has begun.
I suspect that the rate of spamming will now increase as the vulnerability
represents value to spammers.
MediaWiki 1.17.0 has been released:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-June/000101.html
It would be a good time to upgrade if we want to maintain a dynamic wiki.
--Fred
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