On 11/06/2013 17:35, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hello, > > so I spent the afternoon doing further research. Basically, we're up to > date with our plugins and the way we fight spam.
Great! > > Besides locking down the full wiki (i.e. manual account approval), there > are some more options: > > (1) Switching to OpenID > > New wiki users would be forced to use an OpenID provider, like Yahoo or > Google, to connect to the wiki. We use this at AskBot (for different > reasons), but every once in a while we receive complaints that people > cannot just create a local account. I think this is a valid concern, > having to use an account at some other site first doesn't sound overly > inviting. Plus we then would end up with a mixture of local accounts and > OpenID-based ones, as existing wiki users would not be affected. Well, I not for that one (I don't like to be forced to something ;-) > > (2) Restricting external URLs to approved users > > As most of the spam we see is targetted at adding links to external > sites, we could limit external links to a group of users, e.g. the ones > who have been autoconfirmed (i.e. active for a certain amount of days > and having made several edits already). I've found one extension to do > so on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NotEvil > > I am not sure how much enforcing #2 would limit legitimate users. > Basically, only new users would be affected (the spam seems to happen as > "fire and forget"), and it would take only a certain amount of days and > edits to be autoconfirmed. +1 for this one from my side. I don't think it will touch new 'real' contributors so much. Most of the time they come to add or translate content, not to put a link to another place. Kind regards Sophie -- Sophie Gautier <[email protected]> Tel:+33683901545 Membership & Certification Committee Member - Co-founder The Document Foundation -- 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
