wiki spam
We're back up to about a 3:1 ratio of spam to content on the wiki.
Constantly weeding it out is a poor use of our time... where are we at with this, have we required an account to create pages, at least?
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Quoted 3 lines · Eric Sandeen
We're back up to about a 3:1 ratio of spam to content on the wiki.
Constantly weeding it out is a poor use of our time... where are we at with this, have we required an account to create pages, at least?
I suspect Russell isn't reading the xfs list to actively any more.
Russell, any chance to disabllow posting for users that don't have an account on the wiki?
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Quoted 6 lines · Christoph Hellwig
Quoted 3 lines · Eric Sandeen
We're back up to about a 3:1 ratio of spam to content on the wiki.
Constantly weeding it out is a poor use of our time... where are we at with this, have we required an account to create pages, at least?
I suspect Russell isn't reading the xfs list to actively any more.
ya I just have time to skim it these days.
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Russell, any chance to disabllow posting for users that don't have an account on the wiki?
Well unfortunately I seem to remember doing that a while back. (I'll check to make sure). I did notice that there are accounts showing up to just post spam :-(. I have been going in once in a while and looking at the recent changes page and deleting new pages/changes that are spam.
Maybe I can change it to approved only accounts can make changes. I'll look into it.
I suppose like anything else nothing is perfect at keeping the spam away.
-Russell
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Quoted 8 lines · Christoph Hellwig
Quoted 3 lines · Eric Sandeen
We're back up to about a 3:1 ratio of spam to content on the wiki.
Constantly weeding it out is a poor use of our time... where are we at with this, have we required an account to create pages, at least?
I suspect Russell isn't reading the xfs list to actively any more.
Russell, any chance to disabllow posting for users that don't have an account on the wiki?
Ok I updated mediawiki to 1.19 so that the ConfirmUser extension wold work.
All accounts must be approved by a sysop before they are active. Hopefully I can just reject the obvious spam accounts.
There was some 1500 accounts on the system most of them with no edit's so I just deleted those.
There is a bunch of spam accounts with 1 or 2 posts these should be deleted with the mergeuser extension but that is a bit more time consuming.
Please let me know if the upgrade has caused any problems.
-Russell
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