Re: [Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-14 Thread Bináris 
2013/12/14 Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com


 causes another problem: I usually receive e-mails with this subject
 because I'm a moderator in wikifa-l: Wikifa-l post from x...@yy.com
 requires approval and the text of the e-mail is the text of that
 e-mail which is obviously spam, so gmail usually consider this mail as
 spam and after a while It consider wikifa-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org
 as spammer and that's bad sometimes that become worse and gmail
 consider the whole lists.wikimedia.org as spammer) and honestly I'm
 frustrated of discarding spams


By the time some better solution will be available, all moderators using
gmail should filter these messages as never spam.

As Wikipedia is treated in a special way in Google search result lists, I
can imagine that their staff would be willing to treat @wikimedia.org in a
special way, too, if the Foundation asked them to do so as we are important
for them. That wouldn't globally solve the spam-related problems of the
whole Internet community and some might say it isn't thus fair play, but
might be a good solution.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploymight highlights - week of December 16th

2013-12-14 Thread Nik Everett 


Sent from my iPhone

 On Dec 13, 2013, at 8:13 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
 
 Greg Grossmeier wrote:
 * There will be a new version of PHP deployed to the Wikimedia servers
 on Monday as well. This should not change any user-facing actions
 (this update will help deal with a server problem where temporary
 files are not deleted when appropriate).
 
 Is there more specific information available about this? That is, we'll be
 updating from PHP version X to PHP version Y. And what specifically will
 be changing? Only a patch for temporary files or will other changes be
 included as well? I ask because even minor changes in PHP can have strange
 and unforeseen consequences across such a large codebase.
 
 * The GLAM Wiki Toolset[3] will be enabled on Commons, allowing for GLAM
 institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to more
 easily upload bulk collections of images with associated metadata.
 
 I was curious whether this new tool would be restricted to specific user
 groups on Commons. I tracked down https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/101061
 (via https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56181) and it seems that the answer
 is no (i.e., it will be available to all). Has anyone checked with the
 Commoners about this proposed deployment? I believe Commons generally has
 far more restrictive user rights/groups (e.g., requiring users to be a in
 special user group to simply rename files).
 
 * The new search backend (CirrusSearch) will be enabled on:
 ** all wikinewsies set as secondary search;
 ** itwiktionary, disabled wikis, cawiki, and enwikisource set as primary
  search;
 ** all users on all wikisources will have the option of enabling it as
  their own personal primary search via BetaFeatures[4].
 
 While https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search mentions disabled, I have
 no idea what this means. I looked at the database lists at
 https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/, but still can't figure out what
 disabled wikis means. I'm familiar with closed, fishbowl, private,
 deleted, etc. Disabled is a new term to me. Can someone please clarify?
 

Sorry, I'm using the wrong term. It is just closed wikis.  

Nik


 MZMcBride
 
 
 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-14 Thread Andre Klapper 
On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 10:28 +0330, Amir Ladsgroup wrote:
 public mailing lists (even sometimes private ones) are target of
 non-stop spamming.

As Nemo already wrote, there are some (technical) comments in
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56525 available.

 Another thing: GNU mailman has introduced a spam-filtering system

In which version?

 , but
 I think we haven't updated to that version and our version is 2.1.13
 which is released in 2009-12-22 [2] and last stable version of GNU
 mailman has been released in 23-Nov-2013 [3]. Is there any reason for
 not updating?

See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50864#c5 on a related
note.

andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/


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