Am 15.07.2011 23:06, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
On 07/15/2011 12:24 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
Wiki spammers are still very active on qemu.org (see
http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges).
The QEMU wiki needs more technical protection against spam
and also more administrators who can remove spam pages
(I can't, so I simply emptied the pages I just found).
There's no simple solution to spam. Even captcha's are limited as
many spammers are just using mechanical turks plus OCR to defeat
captchas.
recaptcha had some problems recently so I had to disable it on the
wiki which led to an influx of spam. It seems to be working fine
again so I've reenabled it. Hopefully the spam activity will
dramatically drop again.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
I just spent again 15 minutes removing spam from the wiki. That's not
really fun.
Adding a new user account should require confirmation by mail. This
extension
can also help a little bit:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof.
Even more restrictive would be
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount.
And the wiki still needs administrators who are allowed to really remove
spam pages (try http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:ShortPages to get the page
titles).
Regards,
Stefan Weil
