On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 02:43:55PM +0800, Tom Fifield wrote: > Hi all, > > Spam pages now outnumber content pages on our wiki. > > I have stopped trying to keep up with deleting them, after putting in many, > many hours. > > > Is there any chance someone can make the configuration changes I posted a > couple weeks back, as an emergency measure? > > > * update Apache web server configuration to block all spammer IPs in lists > available from www.stopforumspam.com . Alternate, use the mediawiki plugin > that does the same: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StopForumSpam > > * Configre the ConfirmEdit extension to set it to display a CAPTCHA when > creating a new page: > > $wgCaptchaTriggers['create'] = true; > I have some spare cycles to look at this today.
> > > Regards, > > > Tom > > On 15/02/16 22:05, Tom Fifield wrote: > >Is there anyone who can help with this? There's still a ton of spam > >going in, and manually cleaning it is a ton of effort. > > > >On 12/02/16 06:40, Tom Fifield wrote: > >>OK, so, MediaWiki nas a nice manual on how to combat spam ( > >>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam ) > >> > >>Would it be possible to get these implemented: > >> > >>* update Apache web server configuration to block all spammer IPs in > >>lists available from www.stopforumspam.com . Alternate, use the > >>mediawiki plugin that does the same: > >>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StopForumSpam > >> > >>* Configre the ConfirmEdit extension to set it to display a CAPTCHA when > >>creating a new page: > >> > >>$wgCaptchaTriggers['create'] = true; > >> > >> > >>Regards, > >> > >> > >>Tom > >> > >> > >>On 12/02/16 11:08, Tom Fifield wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>Since about 11th January, wiki.o.o has been under attack by spammers. > >>> > >>>They're creating new pages at a rate of more than 50 a day, with titles > >>>that hint at calling certain phone numbers for various services. > >>> > >>>If you look at > >>> > >>>https://wiki.openstack.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages > >>> > >>>you'll see them. > >>> > >>>It's across more than a dozen user accounts. I'm going to attempt some > >>>cleaning, but we probably need to look for an extension to do something > >>>about this pro-actively. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>Regards, > >>> > >>> > >>>Tom > >>> > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>OpenStack-Infra mailing list > >>>[email protected] > >>>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra > >>> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>OpenStack-Infra mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra > > > >_______________________________________________ > >OpenStack-Infra mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-Infra mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
