Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-06-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 10 June 2013 16:44:27 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > Even though it may seem not to help as well as before, > the TextChas still prevent lots of attempts. The logs are > full of TextCha failures. > > The ratio of success to failures in the current log file > (which was started yesterday at 6am

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-06-10 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 10.06.2013 15:15, Paul Boddie wrote: > 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 pub

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-06-10 Thread Paul Boddie
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'v

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-22 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:19 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >Did this have an effect on the number of editors of the wiki ? It probably did, but it's hard to gauge. It's not like we had a ton of non-spam editors previously. We never denied anybody write access if they asked though. >The usual complaint

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-22 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
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 >

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
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

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-20 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 20.03.2013 09:44, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 19.03.2013 09:14, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> On 18.03.2013 19:58, Paul Boddie wrote: >>> On Monday 18 March 2013 19:00:37 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > Hello, > > We're getting a fair am

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-20 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 20.03.2013 08:33, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Paul Boddie wrote: > >> On Tuesday 19 March 2013 09:30:13 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> >>> I've added a new set of textchas to the Python wiki. >> >> Thanks to both of you for configuring the wiki and improving the text

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-20 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 19.03.2013 09:14, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 18.03.2013 19:58, Paul Boddie wrote: >> On Monday 18 March 2013 19:00:37 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: Hello, We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-20 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Tuesday 19 March 2013 09:30:13 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > > > I've added a new set of textchas to the Python wiki. > > Thanks to both of you for configuring the wiki and improving the textcha > questions. This makes it a lot easier and more

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-19 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 19 March 2013 09:30:13 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > I've added a new set of textchas to the Python wiki. Thanks to both of you for configuring the wiki and improving the textcha questions. This makes it a lot easier and more rewarding to keep maintaining the wiki content. Paul __

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-19 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 19.03.2013 09:14, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 18.03.2013 19:58, Paul Boddie wrote: >> On Monday 18 March 2013 19:00:37 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: Hello, We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-19 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 18.03.2013 19:58, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Monday 18 March 2013 19:00:37 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with >>> administrative privileges check that the text

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 18 March 2013 21:56:04 anatoly techtonik wrote: > Does MoinMoin support moderated edits by new users? Not out of the box, at least to my knowledge, but I have written an extension that puts edits in an approval queue for each page if the contributor is not part of the approved contribu

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-18 Thread anatoly techtonik
Does MoinMoin support moderated edits by new users? -- anatoly t. On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > Hello, > > We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with > administrative privileges check that the textcha feature is enabled and has > been give

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-18 Thread Chris Withers
On 18/03/2013 18:00, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: We've been seeing the same development on the Jython wiki. I guess they just realized that the Python wiki will likely get them even more Google juice: http://wiki.python.org/jython/RecentChanges Of course, ideas as welcome :-) I've had success with

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 18 March 2013 19:00:37 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with > > administrative privileges check that the textcha feature is enabled and > > has been giv

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 18.03.2013 19:03, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * M.-A. Lemburg : > >> We've been seeing the same development on the Jython wiki. I guess >> they just realized that the Python wiki will likely get them >> even more Google juice: >> >> http://wiki.python.org/jython/RecentChanges >> >> Unfortunatel

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-18 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* M.-A. Lemburg : > We've been seeing the same development on the Jython wiki. I guess > they just realized that the Python wiki will likely get them > even more Google juice: > > http://wiki.python.org/jython/RecentChanges > > Unfortunately, the wiki spam appears to from real humans, > so textc

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-18 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > Hello, > > We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with > administrative privileges check that the textcha feature is enabled and has > been given a set of effective questions? You can see that it is enabled by visi

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 18.03.2013 18:51, Paul Boddie wrote: > Hello, > > We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with > administrative privileges check that the textcha feature is enabled and has > been given a set of effective questions? We've been seeing the same development on the