Also several tool we have for vandalism are now blocked and waiting for response from operation team - see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37404 this is currently blocker to make a very effective system
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, we constantly remove the spam from all wikis. The fact there is no > check user is making it harder though. > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: >> Unsurprisingly, we're seeing open wikis more and more frequently >> attacked by spambots: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges >> >> We need to come up with a consistent response strategy here. I see >> that wiki is already running the SpamBlacklist extension, although it >> may not be set up correctly. It may also be necessary to set up >> additional captchas or more restrictive measures. >> >> If necessary we'll have to shut down instances that are being taken >> over by spammers. >> >> -- >> Erik Möller >> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
