Re: [Qemu-devel] Wiki spam

[Stefan Weil]

Am 15.07.2011 23:06, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 07/15/2011 12:24 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>
> > Wiki spammers are still very active on qemu.org (see
> > http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges).
> >
> > The QEMU wiki needs more technical protection against spam
> > and also more administrators who can remove spam pages
> > (I can't, so I simply emptied the pages I just found).
>
> There's no simple solution to spam.  Even captcha's are limited as 
> many spammers are just using mechanical turks plus OCR to defeat 
> captchas.
>
> recaptcha had some problems recently so I had to disable it on the 
> wiki which led to an influx of spam.  It seems to be working fine 
> again so I've reenabled it.  Hopefully the spam activity will 
> dramatically drop again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori

I just spent again 15 minutes removing spam from the wiki. That's not 
really fun.

Adding a new user account should require confirmation by mail. This 
extension
can also help a little bit: 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof.
Even more restrictive would be 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount.

And the wiki still needs administrators who are allowed to really remove
spam pages (try http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:ShortPages to get the page 
titles).

Regards,

Stefan Weil