Please let's protect the wiki from spammers
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
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@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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I am okay with updating the wiki so that we can do the captcha thing. I need to work w/ Raymond (intralanman) on some back-end infrastructure stuff before that happens. We'll discuss this further on the Wednesday conf call this week. -MC On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Avi Marcus <avi@avimarcus.net> wrote:
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@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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Avi Marcus
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Diego Viola
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Michael Collins