[PD] Pdpedia spam

[Olivier Heinry]

On dim, 2008-12-21 at 11:29 -0800, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 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


See for yourself: 15 edits between benjah's last one on 18th and mine
tonight

http://wiki.puredata.info/mediapool/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&action=history
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O.

> 
> >> .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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