Also, judging from the recent changes, the newly increased spam seems to be
coming from a single person using several users that have been left without
blocking in December 2008. I have now blocked several of these users. It is
a good practice to block users who are spamming the wiki; only reverting
their changes does not prevent their further spam.
Monitoring pages and blocking spammers and vandals is a usual practice at
wikis, not to be avoided. If the wiki should be less editable and thus
wiki-like, more of the pages can be protected, so that only admins can edit
them.
Dan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Dan Polansky <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> spam is a bit of a problem, but it can be reverted by any editor who comes
> along, as has already happened, which can be seen from histories of the
> pages. The spam cannot do any serious harm as far as I can tell, as it can
> always be reverted. In the worst case, more pages can be protected apart
> from the main page.
>
> There are advantages to using MediaWiki, including the familiarity of its
> markup because of the popularity of Wikimedia projects that use it such as
> Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and Wikibooks. That's how I see it,
> anyway.
>
> Best regards,
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Christian Foltin <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dimitry,
>>
>> thanks for this notice. I was not aware of the problem.
>> Regarding sf: I've already asked them whether or not it is possible to
>> install its own extensions or local settings, and they responded that it is
>> not possible at all. See
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2315773&group_id=1&atid=200001
>> so, should I move the wiki nontheless?
>>
>> Regards, Chris
>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> > Datum: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:00:16 +0100
>> > Von: "Dimitri Polivaev" <[email protected]>
>> > An: [email protected]
>> > Betreff: [Freemind-developer] Spam in FreeMind wiki
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > until now there have been not too much spam in the freemind wiki.
>> > Therefore I was able to care about removing it controlling recent
>> changes and doing
>> > page rollbacks when needed. In the last time the amount of the spam
>> > increased and therefore other measures should be taken. To see it visit
>> >
>> > http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Special:Recentchanges
>> >
>> > In this mail I want to describe what could be done although I have not
>> > time to do it myself.
>> >
>> > I think that FreeMind should switch from the old wiki to the wiki hosted
>> > by the sourceforge because there all users register with their
>> sourceforge
>> > accounts and there is really less possibilities to write spam. Because
>> we
>> > have some useful extensions, first of all my extension for embedding the
>> mind
>> > maps in the wiki pages and extension for highlighting of groovy example
>> > scripts. Somebody could write a request to the source forge stuff so
>> that
>> > they install the wiki extensions we need. The current wiki configuration
>> with
>> > all extensions can be checked by accessing the web server and looking in
>> > localsettings.php and extension directory in the wiki installation
>> directory.
>> > Further steps for transferring of content from the old to the new
>> location
>> > could be necessary.
>> >
>> > By writing this mail I want to start a discussion about the wiki spam
>> > problem. It is not a request for immediately doing something but rather
>> an
>> > invitation for starting a discussion about the problem.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Dimitry
>> >
>> >
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