Hi, http://teachingopensource.org/index.php?title=Tudor_Hotel_Cape_Town&action=history
But wait, there's more! http://teachingopensource.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=250&hidemyself=1 Skimming through my deleting of spam pages, you see a lot more spam being added. Well, now what? r On Wed 25 May 2011 16:21:36 Ryan Rix wrote: > Heya everyone, > > I just finished enacting more antispam measures on tos.o. This is > important for anyone wishing to edit the wiki, as it may force you to do > some work (email verification). > > == Email verification == > > I have made it so that only users who have verified an email address are > allowed to edit the Wiki now. When you register, you have the chance to > verify an email address, but it's not required, so I imagine quite a few > users did not do so. :) They can no longer edit the wiki. It's easy to > verify email addresses though. > > 1) log in > 2) open http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Special:Preferences > 3) go down to == E-Mail options == > 4) tell it to send you an email confirmation > 5) Click the link in the mail that it sends you > > All done, and you can edit again. > > == Spam Blacklist == > I've enabled the SpamBlacklist plugin, which checks edits against a > blacklist of regularexpressions, currently being hosted by Wikipedia > (any site can have their own, piggybacking WP was just the easiest). If > one of your edits matches a regex on > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist it will be denied. > If it's a legitimate edit, and is getting a false positive, let one of > the infrastructure people know. > > Hopefully these two measures will prevent the vast majority of the spam > problems we have been facing. I'm going to do a cursory look through the > Main namespace and clean out any spam tonight, and some time in the next > week or so purge spamming users. > > Thanks everyone! -- Ryan Rix -- http://rix.si == OpenSource.com: Where Open Source Happens! ==
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