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

2013-03-22 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

2013-03-20 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk 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

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 p...@boddie.org.uk 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 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 p...@boddie.org.uk wrote: Hello, We're getting a fair amount

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

2013-03-19 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 p...@boddie.org.uk wrote: Hello, We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with administrative privileges check that the

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 p...@boddie.org.uk wrote: Hello, We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-18 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com: 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,

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 m...@egenix.com: 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

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 p...@boddie.org.uk 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

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 anatoly techtonik
Does MoinMoin support moderated edits by new users? -- anatoly t. On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk 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