2012/6/6 Regina Henschel <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > Herbert Duerr schrieb: > >> On 06.06.2012 05:57, imacat wrote: >> >>> It's relatively easy to start a new Wiki or discard an existing one. >>> But to form and keep a live Wiki community is a lot harder than just >>> moving. >>> >> >> Agreed. >> >> Speaking of the OOo/AOO Wiki community the Wiki has been a target of >> attacks by Spambots or Annoybots for a long time. Please see e.g. >> http://wiki.services.**openoffice.org/w/index.php?** >> title=Special:RecentChanges&**limit=500<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500> >> >> which shows that most of the changelog entries are caused by these >> Annoybots subscribing about 50 dummy users every day. >> >> I'm not sure if this is critical because it could blow up the service >> but browsing the recent changes list feels like analyzing the contents >> of a garbage bin instead of a "hey these are interesting updates" >> moment. Whatever is decided to become the new Wiki I hope it is more >> resilient against these attacks as we are a high profile target getting >> plenty of page hits on the Wiki and there are also some people that >> really want our project to die and put some effort into it. When our >> three Wikis get overhauled this should be a consideration. >> > > Can we restrict the account creation as described in > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Manual:Preventing_access#** > Restrict_account_creation<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_account_creation> > > You need no account to read the Wiki, so its purpose giving support is not > restricted. > > Kind regards > Regina > > Hummm... That could prevent new contributors to join the project, but have no interest in joining something more, let's say, "official". For example: people who write tutorials, tips and tricks, people who make individual efforts locally and so on.
There are other ways to block bots and fake users. Best regards. -- Paulo de Souza Lima http://almalivre.wordpress.com Curitiba - PR Linux User #432358 Ubuntu User #28729
