Re: Wiki Spam

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THanks ,

I tried to access the Sourceforge Admin/Wiki page.
However, it seems broken.
Maybe the SF team is doing something with it?

I will try every now and then, to see if I can get to the Admin section, and
disable the wiki.
Also, the wiki pages itself are extremely slow, and if I click on 'recent
changes' the spam does not show up.
You were talking about the SF wiki, right? And not the old one?

  Bram


On Nov 17, 2007 7:40 AM, Martijn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Many pages of the Wiki have been spammed. I strongly suggest we take
> action NOW. I have shut down at least two Wiki projects in the past,
> solely due to spam, and was forced to manually rebuild one of them from
> scratch.
>
> About 500 spam bots have registered by now, and they will probably
> become active one by one after a while. The problem is that there's no
> way to delete these accounts (a deliberate MediaWiki feature) without
> risking errors.
> Spam quickly fills the database due to both the spam and the rollbacks,
> and makes it slower than it already is.
>
> There are some third party anti-spam measures available for MediaWiki, I
> have tried many of them but honestly I doubt about their effectiveness.
> I suggest blocking un-registered edits, and installing a captcha for
> wiki account registration.
> This is against the Wiki-spirit, but it seems to be the only way to
> prevent spam. I think there are to few regular wiki-editors to roll back
> spam-edits manually.
>
> Who is the ODE wiki admin? I'm not a wiki expert, but perhaps I can
> assist keeping it in good shape.
>
> Martijn
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THanks ,<br><br>I tried to access the Sourceforge Admin/Wiki page.<br>However, it seems broken.<br>Maybe the SF team is doing something with it?<br><br>I will try every now and then, to see if I can get to the Admin section, and disable the wiki.
<br>Also, the wiki pages itself are extremely slow, and if I click on &#39;recent changes&#39; the spam does not show up.<br>You were talking about the SF wiki, right? And not the old one?<br><br>&nbsp; Bram<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Nov 17, 2007 7:40 AM, Martijn &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Many pages of the Wiki have been spammed. I strongly suggest we take<br>action NOW. I have shut down at least two Wiki projects in the past,<br>solely due to spam, and was forced to manually rebuild one of them from<br>scratch.
<br><br>About 500 spam bots have registered by now, and they will probably<br>become active one by one after a while. The problem is that there&#39;s no<br>way to delete these accounts (a deliberate MediaWiki feature) without
<br>risking errors.<br>Spam quickly fills the database due to both the spam and the rollbacks,<br>and makes it slower than it already is.<br><br>There are some third party anti-spam measures available for MediaWiki, I<br>
have tried many of them but honestly I doubt about their effectiveness.<br>I suggest blocking un-registered edits, and installing a captcha for<br>wiki account registration.<br>This is against the Wiki-spirit, but it seems to be the only way to
<br>prevent spam. I think there are to few regular wiki-editors to roll back<br>spam-edits manually.<br><br>Who is the ODE wiki admin? I&#39;m not a wiki expert, but perhaps I can<br>assist keeping it in good shape.<br><font color="#888888">
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</a><br></font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Zapp: Captain&#39;s log, stardate...er..<br>Kif: Ohhh. April 13th.<br>Zapp: April 13th. Point 2.

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