On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:10:10 +0100, Ashley Yakeley <ash...@semantic.org>
wrote:
This is beginning to annoy people. Actually, someone registered several
thousand accounts (of the form XxxxxXxxxx), though almost all of them
have not been used. The others have been used to add spam.
I can block user accounts and IP addresses, and I can grant this
privilege to others on whatever basis the Haskell community think
appropriate.
I have CheckUser installed (allows me to find the IP addresses of a
given user, and find edits from a particular IP address), and this is
also a grantable privilege. However, given that the spam is coming from
quite a number of IP addresses, I suspect there is some kind of botnet
involved.
There is a tool called "rollback" that allows one-click revert of one or
more sequential edits from the same user, which makes reverting spam a
one-click-per-page operation. Again, this is a grantable privilege and
in any case relatively harmless. However, it is only available with
MediaWiki 1.9 and later, and HaskellWiki is running MediaWiki 1.5.4, so
this means doing an upgrade. The current stable release is 1.13.2.
I think it would be even better when the site is protected with captchas
[1], like wipipedia is. http://captchas.net/ provides a free captcha
service. It is too easy to create a new user account and to edit pages by
means of a forum spambot [2].
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Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot#Forum_spambots
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