Hi, Thomas Perl wrote: > As for the spam problem: Isn't there a reCAPTCHA plugin for Mediawiki > or something? If that's annoying for regular contributors, make it so > that the reCAPTCHA is required for users below a certain Wiki karma > boundary, and above that, just let the user edit without having to > fill in a captcha (some spambots have no problem registering an > account and posting spam there, so just requiring registration > probably doesn't help).
We have the following extensions installed on our MediaWiki (contents of /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions): BugzillaReports DynamicPageList ParserFunctions BugzillaReports_v0.9 EditHelp.php README BugzillaReports_v0.9.8 ExtensionFunctions.php.bak RSSReader CategoryTree extensions_from_oldmaemo SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi Cite GForgeAuthentication Userlogin_maemo ConfirmEdit ImageMap UserMerge ExtensionFunctions.php.bak: Not sure what that is. README is just a README, and extensions_from_oldmaemo contains only CategoryTree. I guess that we could install a recaptcha extension... The state of the discussion was this: http://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Meta:Anonymous_editing The end result is that we use the default "simple maths test" for anonymous edits on wiki.m.o and adopted a "wait & see" to see how bad spam was. I can report a marked increase in the spam that needs cleaning up since around November or December. I have to take my hat off to amigadave (David King) who has been policing the spammers well, and Jack Tanner, who was cleaning up the content (unfortunately, since he couldn't delete pages or revert edits previously, his clean-up work still needed further clean-up to avoid page names & history polluting the wiki - now that he's a sysop, that should solve that problem). I don't have any time to do this in the very near future, but I can keep it on my plate - can someone ping me in a couple of weeks if it hasn't happened? I might need a few pings before I manage to make time for it, but at least every 2 weeks I can let you know ;) Thanks! Dave. -- Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: bo...@jabber.org _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list maemo-community@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
