[PD] Pdpedia: Vandalism

marius schebella marius.schebella at gmail.com
Mon Dec 24 07:53:30 CET 2007


I think we had a discussion in the beginning and we agreed to make the 
wiki only writeable for registered users as soon as we have to deal with 
spam.
so... I suggest to do that now.
marius.

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> It's quite easy to delete spam on pdpedia, we just need people  
> willing to do it.  I think it would be good to have a lot of admins  
> to make that easier.  So far, I've just been giving admin privileges  
> to anyone who asks to get things going.  I suppose we should think of  
> a process.
> 
> How about a consensus of the current admins (like the consensus of  
> developers for CVS)?
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Dec 23, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Derek Holzer wrote:
> 
>> My experience is that every Captcha can be defeated somehow. It's  
>> only a
>> matter of time:
>>
>> http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/
>>
>> At FLOSS Manuals, we have it so that no edit can "go live" without the
>> approval of the moderator:
>>
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData
>>
>> Human review seems like the only solution to this never-ending  
>> problem.
>>
>> d.
>>
>> Chris wrote:
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> There are several cases of vandalism at wiki.puredata.info, who takes
>>> care about that? They are all at discussion pages.
>>> Maybe there should be some kind of Captcha to prevent Bots from  
>>> Spamming?
>>>
>>>
>>> Articles:
>>> http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Talk:message
>>> http://wiki.puredata.info/en/comment
>>> http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Talk:about
>>>
>>> Nearly every IP-edit in pdpedia. I would delete them, but I have no
>>> admin-account.
>>>
>>>
>>> --~~~~
>>> Chris
>>>
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