[PD] Pdpedia spam

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 24, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Olivier Heinry wrote:

> 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
> ++
> O.

Ah yeah, FYI that link is not the Main Page, but the Talk page for  
the Main Page, which is technically a different page.  And I just  
realized these are in 'mediapool' section, so I guess we can't say  
"THE" main page, since each language has a main page.

There was indeed lots of spam there, in fact that page ws only ever  
spam, it never had content.  That's easy to handle, just use the  
"delete" tab, it even removes it from the "Recent Changes".  If a  
page is only spam, then the "delete" option is perfect.

http://wiki.puredata.info/mediapool/index.php? 
title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=500&days=30

I am not opposed to trying other spam measures.  But I do think we  
should try the built-in tools first.  I think IOhannes' sounded worth  
trying: a captcha only for edits with links in them. Any volunteers  
to set them up?

.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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