ashley: > 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.
Should we be thinking about upgrading now? I imagine there are other benefits... -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
