We need help with the wiki, looking for new administrators
Hello, As some of you might know, I'm one of the administrators of the FreeSWITCH wiki; for the past months I've been trying to keep the wiki clean from spammers and related abuses, which means I spent my time blocking spammers, deleting spam pages, and improving the wiki, etc. Recently I got a job which occupies most of my time so I won't have the time that I had before for doing such things, so if someone have the time for this task please reply on this thread so we can grant you administrator rights. This task isn't hard and it's basically as follows: keep an eye at "Recent changes" here: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges -- there is also a "Recent changes" link in the main page and in every wiki page, then when you find someone spammed the wiki, block that user with indefinite time, and then delete his/her spam page or the affected pages. Please contact us if you're interested in helping. Sincerely, Diego Viola
2011/2/8 Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com>:
Hello,
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This task isn't hard and it's basically as follows: keep an eye at "Recent changes" here: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges -- there is also a "Recent changes" link in the main page and in every wiki page, then when you find someone spammed the wiki, block that user with indefinite time, and then delete his/her spam page or the affected pages.
Please contact us if you're interested in helping.
Thanks for this, I know how painfull it can be to read full changlof. I won't have time myself (I'm pretty busy). But I want to suggest adding more automatic spam protection. there is a list of extensions and methods at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam. Captcha is already enabled. You can add a $wgSpamRegex* or better use SpamBlacklist extension ; use IP address blacklists and DNS BL. * A lot of words have nothing to do with FS. Like "nursing","X-ray", ... Regards Mathieu
That makes alot of sense. Perhaps I can take a look at it and see what changes can be made with proper coordination to keep it being such a mundane manual process. -- W
I appreciate everyone's helps with all this. I'm available to load other mediawiki modules, etc. if someone has thoughts on what we can do. -MC On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:32 AM, William Suffill <william.suffill@gmail.com>wrote:
That makes alot of sense. Perhaps I can take a look at it and see what changes can be made with proper coordination to keep it being such a mundane manual process.
-- W
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I check for recent changes often to try to keep up with new stuff in FS - sometimes several times per day, so I'm available to help. I've been noticing a trend of more mediawiki abuse in other places as well, perhaps additional preventative measures should be put into place... E.g. 1) htaccess on the submit page (like pb - linode.com does this), or 2) manual confirmation of new accounts via email/irc appearance/phone call, or 3) captchas on new user / submit.. -Avi On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
I appreciate everyone's helps with all this. I'm available to load other mediawiki modules, etc. if someone has thoughts on what we can do. -MC
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:32 AM, William Suffill < william.suffill@gmail.com> wrote:
That makes alot of sense. Perhaps I can take a look at it and see what changes can be made with proper coordination to keep it being such a mundane manual process.
-- W
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Diego, If you would like to contact me offline, I can probably help out with the monitoring of the wiki, while the automation is put in place. Jonathan On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
I appreciate everyone's helps with all this. I'm available to load other mediawiki modules, etc. if someone has thoughts on what we can do. -MC
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:32 AM, William Suffill < william.suffill@gmail.com> wrote:
That makes alot of sense. Perhaps I can take a look at it and see what changes can be made with proper coordination to keep it being such a mundane manual process.
-- W
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participants (6)
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Avi Marcus
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Diego Viola
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jonathan augenstine
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Mathieu Parent
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Michael Collins
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William Suffill