May i make a suggestion as there is mention of Captchas are we talking about ReCaptcha or just the normal Captcha? If Captcha is it possible to replace with ReCaptcha as its free to sign up and would hopefully help prevent wiki spamming.
Regards Jonathan On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Florian Effenberger < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Volker, > > Volker Merschmann wrote on 2013-06-03 22:39: > > https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.** >> php?title=Special%3ALog&type=**newusers&user=&page=&year=&** >> month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_**patrol_log=1<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&user=&page=&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_patrol_log=1> >> > > I'll reply onlist, as I have incorporated some further changes. Thanks a > lot for letting me know about the issue! > > It seems we are not the only one affected, as I have received feedback > from other open source projects stating similar - a new wave of spam seems > to have arrived for wikis. > > What I have done now is: > > - extended the list of questions to have both the old and the new ones > - enabled the captcha for editing pages, creating pages, and adding > external URLs to pages > - disabled those captchas for autopromoted users > - autopromoted users are those having at least 10 edits *and* at the same > time have been existing longer than five days > > While this will probably not disable account creation, it hopefully rasies > the barrier for spamming. Can you have a look if this helps, and give me a > ping in a few days? > > Thanks, > Florian > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: > website+unsubscribe@global.**libreoffice.org<website%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/**website/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Jonathan Aquilina -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
