Saturday meet up

[Ean Schuessler]

Great meeting up with everyone this weekend. I'm working on cleaning up blockcamp, opendfw and dallapedia. I'd love to hear any ideas about keeping the spam situation under control while preserving the ability for the general public to participate.

[ext-randa...@nokia.com]

Likewise Ean!

 

I’m behind on some other obligations but in the next few days I’ll do a write-up of progress so far along with some thoughts.  I’ll see what I can find out on security and authentication, and I hope others on the list will also.

 

Randall (Randy) Arnold

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[steevithak]

On Camera-Wiki.org, a mediawiki site, we use a combination of email verification and a domain-specific captcha (it show photos of well-known cameras and the user has to type the camera brand name).  Other mediawiki sites rely on moderator or admin approval to create an account, so a human is in the loop. Wikipedia relies on bots and humans to find and lock the spammer accounts after the fact. Akismet is great for blocking spammers on Wordpress sites (on one of my sites it blocks around 8000 comments per month). There's some PHP code that will let you incorporate Akismet more generally and you could conceivably use it to verify the IP during an account signup on any PHP based site with a little work. There's a mediawiki module that will block edits using Akismet (the spammer can still create an account but can't edit the wiki). Using some kind of informal trust metric is another method that might work - you invite a small number of highly trusted users and authorize them to invite people they trust.

-Steve