On Aug 10, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Christian Stimming <christ...@cstimming.de> wrote:
> Hi John, > > I noticed you regularly delete spam pages in our wiki, which is a very good > thing to do. As you and I and hopefully others have noticed, we now get > approx. 1-5 spam pages created every day, which have to be deleted manually. > > This is even though new pages can be created by users who have been > registered > for more than x days. However, once you check the RecentChanges with a view > mode that shows the new user registrations, we notice that every day there > are > approx. 50 new users being registered! Some of these will stay silent for a > few days, then - after the waiting period is over - create the spam page. > This > way, the waiting period does nothing more than reducing the spam rate, but it > doesn't cut it off completely anymore. This is the same for several months by > now. > > I also don't have a good solution for this. I think I can contribute to a > check of the RecentChanges every 1-3 days, so that this spam is deleted > manually. (The keyboard shortcuts help a bit: Alt-Shift-D for choosing the > page's hyperlink for "Delete this page", then Ctrl-A, Del for deleting the > deletion reason, then Tab-Tab-Enter for really pressing the delete button, > and > all this with many browser tabs in parallel between which I navigate with > Ctrl-PgUp/Down.) > > However, I noticed in your spam deletions that you deleted only the normal > pages, but not the user pages of those spammers. Probably you look at the > RecentChanges page only with the subset of "Namespace = (Main)". I look at > this page with the choice "Namespace = all". The backside of this is that I > see those 100 new users every day and the edits scattered in between. The > upside is that I see also the newly created spam userpages (in the "User:" > namespace), and then I delete those as well. Do you think you can check for > those as well, or do we need other solutions for this? > > Other wikis around have disabled the normal user registration altogether for > this very same reason, see e.g. http://elinux.org/Main_Page . Maybe this is > a possibility for us as well? The vast majority of edits in the actual > content > is done by known developers from here. By this, we can argue that an > increased > restriction of the write access doesn't do much harm, but would make our life > a lot easier. Christian, I get notified of changes via RSS to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Special:NewPages rather than RecentChanges, and I check my RSS reader 2-3 times a day. I don't remember seeing any spammer-user who'd created a user page, and when I follow the link to one that isn't blocked, I see the "not created" message and have no option to delete it. I looked at the last 2000 users who "have edits" and found none with User pages.Yet you delete a user page for everyone you block. What am I missing? I'm absolutely in favor of taking a more aggressive approach. By shutting off the "normal" registration, do you mean that new users would require an administrator to validate them? Regards John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
