On Friday 22 March 2013 12:19:05 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 20.03.2013 15:30, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2013, at 10:08 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> If we can't get things under control, we will have to start > >> using such a group and disable public editing of pages :-( > > > > FWIW, we've long had this policy on the Mailman wiki. It was the only > > successful way to control spam. Sign up is open (and yes, we > > occasionally have to delete profile spam), but folks have to email the > > mailman-cabal to request write/edit access. We don't get a lot of such > > requests, so the process is quite manageable, and we get almost zero spam > > now. > > Did this have an effect on the number of editors of the wiki ? > > The usual complaint when doing this is that you prevent quick > edits (e.g. typo corrections) by raising the bar in this way. > > After the recent updates to the textchas, the profile spam > has apparently stopped: > > http://wiki.python.org/jython/RecentChanges
That no longer seems to be the case. I am also having to remove these stupid profile spams from the Python Wiki two or more times per day. > So perhaps making the textchas a little more complicated and also > starting a process to accept people to the trusted editor group > would solve the problem. It would be nice to know which textchas the spammers managed to solve, but again I recommend non-trivial challenge questions. The MoinMoin Wiki doesn't suffer from this. Paul P.S. I'm willing to work on more advanced anti-spam measures, but only if they get used. _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www