[Freeswitch-users] Please let's protect the wiki from spammers

[Avi Marcus]

Linode uses .htaccess on the edit pages (only those), much like our
pastebin, and is probably the easiest thing to add.
But yes, something needs to be done.. I got sick of deleting spam months
ago.

A captcha on normal accounts to make edits is probably OK, too, as long as
they can manually be moved to "human-trusted".
-Avi



On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As most of us may alright know, the FreeSWITCH wiki has been abused
> and attacked by spammers, as seen here:
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
>
> Some FreeSWITCH users have been deleting and blocking these spammers,
> but they are increasing their spamming attacks.
>
> I went into #mediawiki in freenode and asked them if there is any
> solution to this and this is what they suggest:
>
> 15:18 < bawolff> !spam | diegoviola
> 15:18 < mw-bot> diegoviola: For information about combating and
> handling spam in MediaWiki, see
> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam> and
> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features>.
>
>
> I've seen most wikis who have implemented this solution and they no
> longer get any spamming after applying said solution. If somebody here
> have administration access to http://wiki.freeswitch.org/ I offer my
> help to apply this solution.
>
> Thanks,
> Diego Viola
>
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