On Apr 1, 8:14 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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 bySpamI think it has gotten
> > worst over time. So what should we do?
>
> > a) Thewikihas aSpamdetection system, but currently we cannot
> > declare pages asSpam(I think only robertwb and wstein, i.e. people
> > with admin power can). So I would suggest to add various people who
> > watch thewiki(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 thewikionly on demand and
> > delete the old spammer accounts. moin moinwikidoesn'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.
Hi,
> (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.
Well, for now I have not toyed with captchas or anything else. But I
have deleted about 400+ spammer account and usually check every day or
two for new spammer accounts. Once I see updates on recent changes and
some of it is spam I usually delete that user instantly ;)
I have added some more words to http://wiki.sagemath.org/LocalBadContent
- i.e. Youtube, ipod and celebrities. If anybody sees any problem with
those keywords or has some more to suggest feel free to let us know.
I have also elevated myself to superuser at the wiki so I can
reclassify pages as Spam instead of deleting them. I was thinking of
people like mhansen that should be elevated to super user so that he
also can do the Spam classification instead deleting those pages.
> I added some words tohttp://wiki.sagemath.org/LocalBadContent. Now
> one can't talk about gold in thewiki, but it seems the vast majority
> of MoinMoin spammers (at least this was the case for the Cythonwiki)
> 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 ofspam.
Yes, that would be really nice. And even email notification when new
accounts are created would let me kill those accounts more or less
instantly if they look like spammers.
> - Robert
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Michael
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