Whatever works for you is fine with me... in the very worst case, even if we just blow away all the accounts and require everyone who had a valid wiki account to start over, that's probably not totally unreasonable. Not optimal, but not the end of the world.
Steve On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It seems as though the way we required users to have confirmed email > addresses before editing wasn't working. So anyone who created an > account, even if they didn't confirm the email could create or edit a > page. I've managed to fix this, but there is still the question of > removing the spam. I'm considering trying something like removing any > user whos email isn't also subscribed to a gem5 mailing list. Any > thoughts? > > Ali > > On 14.06.2013 18:05, Ali Saidi wrote: > > > On > 14.06.2013 17:56, Nilay Vaish wrote: > > > >> I just noticed that in > > > > > past two days, at least 1000 changes were made to > > > >> the wiki. Each > of > > > > these change was either a user account creation or a > > In past, > I > > > > have observed user accounts were being created on the wiki > withabsurd nam> ys very lo > > ockquote type="cite" > style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; > width:100%">I > > > > think we need to do something. Does mediawiki has > some security features > > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
