On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 04:05:04PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:40 AM, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > >> - For every new wiki account, mail a copy of the very first page edit (diff) >> to a small number of people. Should be very easy to spot spam, and only then >> some action needs to be taken. > >We already have some people following RecentChanges and that seems to work >fine. > >https://wiki.debian.org/RecentChanges
I also opened a wishlist against moin myself a while to get this kind of feature: #705114. While it's all well and good to pick up spam after the fact, I'd love to be able to do moderation of new accounts instead. Patches welcome! >> - Have an easy way to mass-revert all edits by a given user account, to be >> used in the above case. > >The wiki engine supports this already for admin users. It isn't >actually that useful because most spammers that reach the wiki these >days are one-shot, spammers just create new accounts for each edit. ... for exactly this reason. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Dasmohapatra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140911114923.gf14...@einval.com
