[Debconf-team] Wiki spam

2011-02-09 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, If you look at RecentChanges http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges you'll see the spam attack on our wiki has picked up. It used to be there was one spam instance user+page created per day or so. Starting sometime yesterday, it has picked up a lot. I used to be deleting and

Re: [Debconf-team] Wiki spam

2011-02-09 Thread Moray Allan
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: If you look at RecentChanges  http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges you'll see the spam attack on our wiki has picked up. There *is* a maths test box on the account creation page. Maybe the automated systems added

Re: [Debconf-team] Wiki spam

2011-02-09 Thread Brian Gupta
How many users are registered overall? I'm wondering if we need to go to a manual user approval process, but that wouldn't work if the scale is too high. -Bria On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Richard Darst r...@zgib.net

Re: [Debconf-team] Wiki spam

2011-02-09 Thread Vedran Omeragic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA just sayin... On 02/10/2011 01:03 AM, Brian Gupta wrote: How many users are registered overall? I'm wondering if we need to go to a manual user approval process, but that wouldn't work if the

Re: [Debconf-team] Wiki spam

2011-02-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:11:29 +, Moray Allan wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: If you look at RecentChanges  http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges you'll see the spam attack on our wiki has picked up. There *is* a maths test box on