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> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I’d like to draw your attention to the wiki. The spammers appear > > to know the solution to the current entry barrier “What is > > usually the last command in a ConTeXt source file (without the > > backslash)?”, and the number of fake accounts is growing fast: > > > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:Log/newusers > > > > They don’t, however, seem to vandalize yet, so I guess the postal > > code of Hasselt is unbreakable with today’s technology ;-) I spoke too soon (or maybe those guys read the list and view this discussion as a challenge?): http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:Contributions/TrenaLege > > Nevertheless the account spam is messing up the recent changes > > feed: > > > > > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss > > > > Even if it’s not urgent, may I suggest we collect possible > > replacements for the current question? I can’t image the damage > > those accounts would do once they figure out how to post links. > > It would probably be best to: > > 1.) Remove all those account (attention: some users are actually > legitimate and contributed valid content). > > 2.) Find out if there is any problematic IP and block those IPs. Careful as their IPs could be spoofed, you might end up blocking innocent users. > 3.) Install something like > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount and/or maybe > use both captcha and some context-specific question (honestly: if > users don't know how to answer some slightly more tricky question, > they shouldn't be able to get the account). We could use questions > like "Last name of president of ConTeXt User Group." This could discourage people from fixing trivial stuff like misspellings. Maybe add a note that they should drop a mail to the list if they don’t know the answer. Regards Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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