Re: [sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on wiki.systemimager.org

2010-11-05 Thread Bas van der Vlies
On 04-11-10 19:08, Bernard Li wrote: Hi all: Lately our Wiki page http://wiki.systemimager.org has been getting a lot of spam. I am reaching out to the community to see if anybody has experience in fighting spam on MediaWiki installations and also to see if anybody would like to volunteer

Re: [sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on wiki.systemimager.org

2010-11-05 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:08:57AM -0700, Bernard Li wrote: Lately our Wiki page http://wiki.systemimager.org has been getting a lot of spam. I am reaching out to the community to see if anybody has experience in fighting spam on MediaWiki installations and also to see if anybody would

[sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on wiki.systemimager.org

2010-11-04 Thread Bernard Li
Hi all: Lately our Wiki page http://wiki.systemimager.org has been getting a lot of spam. I am reaching out to the community to see if anybody has experience in fighting spam on MediaWiki installations and also to see if anybody would like to volunteer to be moderator for the Wiki and to undo

Re: [sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on wiki.systemimager.org

2010-11-04 Thread Brian Elliott Finley
Bernard, How many valid contributors to content on the wiki do we actually have? Would the use of a captcha plugin do the trick? -Brian On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Bernard Li bern...@vanhpc.org wrote: Hi all: Lately our Wiki page http://wiki.systemimager.org has been getting a lot of

Re: [sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on wiki.systemimager.org

2010-11-04 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Brian: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Brian Elliott Finley br...@thefinleys.com wrote: How many valid contributors to content on the wiki do we actually have? That's a good question. It looks like we have 500+ users: http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/Special:Listusers Most of them

Re: [sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on wiki.systemimager.org

2010-11-04 Thread Fiumara, Gregory
On Nov 4, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Bernard Li wrote: Maybe we should just start from scratch deleting all users and have people re-create their accounts after implementing captcha. I'd second that, and/or require moderator approval for newly created accounts. -Greg -- Greg Fiumara Image Group -

Re: [sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on wiki.systemimager.org

2010-11-04 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Greg: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Fiumara, Gregory gregory.fium...@nist.gov wrote: I'd second that, and/or require moderator approval for newly created accounts. Are you referring to moderator approval for new accounts creation and/or wiki edits? I'm afraid either way may impose