I'll be cleaning up some wiki vandalism today.
For those that clean up the vandalism, please make sure that the old text is
not in the block reason.
Turns out that a user can post to their own talk page immediately. Has always
been the case, even with the 4 day waiting period. And they can
DM wrote,
For those that clean up the vandalism, please make sure that the old text
is not in the block reason.
/Mea culpa/. though I realized that was so immediately.
David
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Vandalism is cleaned up and I'm now moderating new user account requests.
Those that want an account have to give their real name, an email account
that they can validate, and a short biography with a minimum required length.
When approved that biography will become their user page.
Obviously,
DM,
Minor point
If you do remove even with the 4 day waiting period, then the line in the
main page lower panel will require an edit.
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On Jul 12, 2008, at 10:01 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
DM Smith wrote:
Feel free to help us block spammers and rolling back their junk.
That requires admin access. Former at least. Who is buerocrat on
the wiki?
I am the bureaucrat. So is Chris. Troy is the ueber bureaucrat.
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On Jul 13, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
DM Smith wrote:
I am the bureaucrat. So is Chris. Troy is the ueber bureaucrat.
Could you then change regular wiki writers etc into admins? Makes it
easier to roll back, and allows us to delete pages and ban vandals.
That
woudl be
DM Smith wrote:
On Jul 13, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
DM Smith wrote:
I am the bureaucrat. So is Chris. Troy is the ueber bureaucrat.
Could you then change regular wiki writers etc into admins? Makes it
easier to roll back, and allows us to delete pages and ban vandals.
About a year ago we started blocking spammers, but we only blocked for
a year. They are now reinstated and are spamming again. Bummer.
Anyway, we are rolling back their changes as we see them happening and
blocking them forever.
Our basic spam handling mechanism is to make accounts wait 4
DM Smith wrote:
Feel free to help us block spammers and rolling back their junk.
That requires admin access. Former at least. Who is buerocrat on the wiki?
In Christ,
DM
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DM Smith wrote:
It was recently pointed out on our support list that our wiki is being
vandalized.
It's kinda disturbing, but there is a bunch of vandalism. Mostly
advertizement/spam. It is easy to find by going to recent changes.
Here is an offensive example:
It was recently pointed out on our support list that our wiki is being
vandalized.
It's kinda disturbing, but there is a bunch of vandalism. Mostly
advertizement/spam. It is easy to find by going to recent changes.
Here is an offensive example:
Found this:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_Features
Though, if you read the top of that page, it has a comment:
*This page should be
movedhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:MetaProject_to_transfer_content_to_MediaWiki.orgto
MediaWiki.org http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/*.
So, expect
I've fixed all the spam I could find. Turns out that one page is used
almost daily as a Joke of the Day. Very vulgar. I'll keep an eye on it
for a while.
Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp wrote:
I use a fairly excellent tool for preventing spam on my blog called
Akismet. I just looked and there is
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