Consider also adding a "captcha" on the new user page. One that has worked well for one of the organizations I reguarlly attend (DC Perl Mongers) was to use a system based on reCAPTCHA. There is a media wiki extension @ http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/mediawiki.html which could be enabled at new user creation. While it won't stop a determined user from entering spam (which happened on dc.pm's website - a valid user edited the website to add spam to it after entering a recaptcha), it stopped most of the robotic attempts for entering spam. Cheers, Zak On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Schuyler Erle <schuy...@nocat.net> wrote:
> Cristiano, if it'll make your life easier, we now have a number of hosting > options, the best of which may be a dedicated VM at Telascience (which we > already have in place). > > SDE > > > > (sent from my mobile) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cristiano Giovando <giov...@gmail.com> > Sender: talk-boun...@openaerialmap.org > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:52:58 > To: OAM List<talk@openaerialmap.org> > Subject: Re: [OAM-talk] Spam in the Wiki > > If changing hosting and DNS can help with spam in the wiki, I'd be > happy to hand over wiki and mailing list's databases to a safer host. > Also, it may be a good idea to moderate account creation for a while. > Ideas? > > > C > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 19:11, Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Still more piling up today. Deleting it is one step in the process, > > but until the hosting (and dns actually) situation is more transparent > > and accessible to the 'community' (such as it is), the problem will > > continue. > > > > Jeff > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> Hi folks, > >>> > >>> Spam has once again started to stack up on the wiki.openaerialmap.org > >>> site. Who has admin to take care of this? Also, seems that the DNS and > >>> hosting should be somewhat more transparent and documented somewhere. > >>> How do we address this? > >> > >> I'm getting into a Festival of Deletions. Apologies in advance if you > >> have recently signed up to the wiki with a random string username. > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > t...@host134.hostmonster.com > > http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > t...@host134.hostmonster.com > http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > t...@host134.hostmonster.com > http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org >
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