On Tuesday 02 February 2016 20:51:40 Ben Cooksley wrote: > Until further notice, all wikis hosted under KDE.org have been > rendered uneditable by everyone except members of the Identity group > "web-admins". > > Unfortunately it seems bots (or a human sweatshop) have completely > automated the login (via OpenID/Identity none the less) and abusive > editing of many of our wikis.
What user accounts are being used? Could we put a system in place where new users need to be moderated for the first handful of posts? > This appears to be an issue being experienced by other Mediawiki > installations elsewhere as well. > > At some point we may reinvestigate restoring editing rights to a more > limited number of users, but until then our wikis will remain closed > to editing. > > If necessary, we may need to consider migration to alternative Wiki > software. You could add the moderation plugin. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Moderation Cheers, Jos _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
