[PD] Pdpedia spam

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 20, 2008, at 1:34 AM, Olivier Heinry wrote:

> On jeu, 2008-12-18 at 23:30 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> If you switch to forcing users to register in order to edit, then you
>> get spam bots creating user accounts, which are harder to delete.  So
>> far, it does not take much work to delete the spam using the
>> mediawiki admin tools ("delete", "protect", "watch", etc.)  I am
>> pretty sure that is how it is done on wikipedia.
>
>
> yes, it would be nice that one the admins protects at least the main
> page of the mediawiki as Jérôme Abel did on the French version. Works
> fine and it's just two clicks away.

I don't think we have gotten spam on the main page, so it doesn't  
need to be protected (yet?).  As far as I know, wikipedia uses the  
'protect' feature as a temporary measure.

.hc


>> .hc
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2008, at 11:08 AM, >------------------------------ wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> we are working on french PdPedia and the english version has been
>>> spammed today after we cleaned somes pages
>>> so would it be possible to allow only registered user to edit on the
>>> pdpedia wiki (urgent), and would it be possible to add a captcha to
>>> register (maybe later) ?
>>> let's fight against bot !!!
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Benjamin
>>>
>>>
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