On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:43 AM, mabshoff wrote: > Hi, > > if you look at > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/RecentChanges?max_days=14 > > you will see once again some idiot spammers creating crap pages in the > wiki. While we aren't too badly effected by Spam I think it has gotten > worst over time. So what should we do? > > a) The wiki has a Spam detection system, but currently we cannot > declare pages as Spam (I think only robertwb and wstein, i.e. people > with admin power can). So I would suggest to add various people who > watch the wiki (mhansen, tclemans, mhampton, mabshoff and others who > would like to) to the admin group.
This seems like a good idea. > b) install a Captcha. This can be done together with (a) > > c) Just like trac hand out account to the wiki only on demand and > delete the old spammer accounts. moin moin wiki doesn't really have an > elegant way to disable account creation without poking around in the > internals, so if you know a elegant way please enlighten me. (b) and especially (c) discourage content, and I don't think we have enough of a problem to worry about that right now, but we could go with (b) if things get works. I added some words to http://wiki.sagemath.org/LocalBadContent . Now one can't talk about gold in the wiki, but it seems the vast majority of MoinMoin spammers (at least this was the case for the Cython wiki) are chinese gold farmers, so that alone cut a huge amount down. What I would really like is a way to moderate new pages, i.e. if someone creates a *new* page it must be approved before getting accepted. This is by far the majority of spam. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
