wikispam

[Steven Pickles]

Hi again,

Just a quick note to apologise to anyone who has been an unintended victim of my long-running battle with spam on the hackerspace wiki. 

I know I have blocked at least one legitimate user in a WikiSysop-bezerker rage.

Please let me know if you have been affected, and I'll try to rectify it.

On that note, I think I'm going to make account creation require manual validation (once I work out how to do it).

Anonymous editing will still be possible (to encourage wiki-gnomes) but you will need a validated account to make external links.

pix

[Damien P]

They don't seem to give up, do they?

I think those changes are a good balance between encouraging
participation and reducing the spam.

[Ken]

I'm of the opinion that snipers is the answer to graffiti, but I don't know how you deal with remote spam.
I closed down a forum I was managing when the amount of spam started to exceed the genuine entries.
There are some bastards out there who obviously get their jollies from wrecking things for everyone else.
Bloody frustrating.

All you can do is be vigilant, and remove spam as soon as it occurs.
I'm always amazed at active product forums which remain riddled with spam.  I regard that neglect as a sign of poor health in the product or the support for it.

I'm not fussed about the copyright limits. If I post something or link to something, of mine, I'll display the level of copyright I want (creative commons or similar).  That should override any statement on a wiki (he says, maybe naively).

Ken.
 

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[alphie]

It's just like Wack-A-Mole. You hit one and another just pops up to
take it's place.

I like the idea of manually validating new accounts, as a means of
controlling spam.

[Paul Schulz]

(slightly-off-topic)

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Ken <k...@waggies.net> wrote:
> I'm of the opinion that snipers is the answer to graffiti,

(snip)

While I tend to agree, just make sure they they read all the memos.

Last format festival there was some official, council commissioned
street art that went 'missing' because of over zealous council
workers.

[Steven Pickles]

On 6 March 2011 17:29, Steven Pickles <thatp...@gmail.com> wrote:

On that note, I think I'm going to make account creation require manual validation (once I work out how to do it).

Anonymous editing will still be possible (to encourage wiki-gnomes) but you will need a validated account to make external links.

 This should pretty much be working now.

In theory, you can't create accounts, but you can fill out a kind of application form (which gets mailed to me for activation).

Also, once you are logged in with a user account, you shouldn't get any captchas for anything.

Anonymous users get captchas on every edit, and adding or editing external links is blocked.

If anyone has any trouble with the wiki, let me know.

Oh yeah, maybe file uploads will be working now.. 

pix