[PD] pdpedia spam reduction idea

2009-06-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Since we don't really use the Talk/Discussion pages, and they seem to be the most spammed, we could just remove them: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_add.2Fremove_tabs_throughout_my_wiki.3F .hc

Re: [PD] Pdpedia spam

2008-12-24 Thread Olivier Heinry
On dim, 2008-12-21 at 11:29 -0800, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Dec 20, 2008, at 1:34 AM, Olivier Heinry wrote: On jeu, 2008-12-18 at 23:30 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: If you switch to forcing users to register in order to edit, then you get spam bots creating user accounts,

Re: [PD] Pdpedia spam

2008-12-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 24, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Olivier Heinry wrote: On dim, 2008-12-21 at 11:29 -0800, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Dec 20, 2008, at 1:34 AM, Olivier Heinry wrote: On jeu, 2008-12-18 at 23:30 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: If you switch to forcing users to register in order to

Re: [PD] Pdpedia spam

2008-12-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 20, 2008, at 1:34 AM, Olivier Heinry wrote: On jeu, 2008-12-18 at 23:30 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: If you switch to forcing users to register in order to edit, then you get spam bots creating user accounts, which are harder to delete. So far, it does not take much work to

Re: [PD] Pdpedia spam

2008-12-20 Thread Olivier Heinry
On jeu, 2008-12-18 at 23:30 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: If you switch to forcing users to register in order to edit, then you get spam bots creating user accounts, which are harder to delete. So far, it does not take much work to delete the spam using the mediawiki admin tools

Re: [PD] Pdpedia spam

2008-12-19 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: If you switch to forcing users to register in order to edit, then you get spam bots creating user accounts, which are harder to delete. So far, it does not take much work to delete the spam using the mediawiki admin tools (delete, protect, watch, etc.) I

Re: [PD] Pdpedia spam

2008-12-19 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 19, 2008, at 5:51 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: If you switch to forcing users to register in order to edit, then you get spam bots creating user accounts, which are harder to delete. So far, it does not take much work to delete the spam using the

[PD] Pdpedia spam

2008-12-18 Thread ---------------[O:O]---------------
Hi, we are working on french PdPedia and the english version has been spammed today after we cleaned somes pages so would it be possible to allow only registered user to edit on the pdpedia wiki (urgent), and would it be possible to add a captcha to register (maybe later) ? let's fight against

Re: [PD] Pdpedia spam

2008-12-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
If you switch to forcing users to register in order to edit, then you get spam bots creating user accounts, which are harder to delete. So far, it does not take much work to delete the spam using the mediawiki admin tools (delete, protect, watch, etc.) I am pretty sure that is how it is

Re: [PD] pdpedia spam

2008-01-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I just discovered the protect tab, it allows you to restrict editing per-page. Since the spam so far has only been on a few pages, I tried turning on the protect mode to see if that is a manageable solution. .hc On Jan 24, 2008, at 8:56 AM, marius schebella wrote: hans, no offense,