On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:21:25AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > What is the Teaching Open Source policy concerning Unsolicited > Commercial Email, also known as SPAM? What are we doing to attempt to > control it? > > I've found some apparent Search Engine Optimization (SEO) attempts in > the wiki User: files. For example, > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Aarenpcaseym > > There are so many apparently automatically generated files like > User:Aarenpcaseym that only about one in three User: files actually > refers to a human being. On 10 August 2010, I emptied > User:Declanlstewarth. On 14 August 2010, it was back with slightly > different contents. I emptied it again and it has not been refreshed. > I think it is evident from this we may have a difficult task, but to > do nothing means a consumption of data space.
Chris said he had some automated tools to deal with these in batches. Chris? Oh, I just read the email[1] that a MediaWiki captcha tool was compromised. Ick. I wonder of OSUOSL has a suggested solution here? We could go with OpenID only ... or clone the Fedora account system, which is even heavier weight. Other ideas? - Karsten [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2010-July/034683.html -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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