wiki spam cleaned up, please create your User: pages (was Re: [Open Web Board] Re: Wiki hit by spam)

[Tantek Çelik]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:51 PM, uncl...@gmail.com
<uncl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we're good at the moment regarding tightening privledges. I'll take
> responsibility for fixing this one since I unintentionally missed adding
> some basic lockdown. I also need to add the OpenID and CAPCHA modules, any
> other suggestions?

I remember the OpenID mediawiki plugin being problematic (a while ago)
so I tried the OpenID wiki (or what I thought was the OpenID wiki)
itself to see if it was using the OpenID media wiki plugin:

http://wiki2008.openid.net/

Happy to report that the OpenID mediawiki plugin installed there
performed beautifully! I'd suggest the specific plugin they've got
installed.


CAPTCHA maybe for account creation but please not for edits - it's a
terrible participation disincentive/speedbump. Either way it's not
urgent IMHO.

These two points also noted on wiki (where follow-up can go too)

http://wiki.openwebfoundation.org/To-do#wiki_admin


> I'm happy to add Board members as admins, but I'd also wouldn't want to see
> it turn into a free for all.

Thanks much Nate.

I've checked the past 500 edits / 30 days worth of edits and:
* blocked all spamming IPs from anonymous edits
* deleted all pages whose
* content and history were all spam, or
* blank, but previous content and history were all spam
- no need to keep spam-only histories of wiki pages.

Ugly details here: http://wiki.openwebfoundation.org/Special:RecentChanges



One thing I noticed is that many folks' User pages fell into one of
those two deletion categories noted above.


If you have edited the wiki, I strongly recommend that you
specifically edit/create your User page (click on the small red link
in the header with your name) and add something simple, e.g. here is
what I started with (wiki code)


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== public domain release ==
{{cc-public-domain-release}}

== see also ==
* hCard: <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">Tantek Çelik</span>
(<span class="url">http://tantek.com/</span>)</span>

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That way if/when your user page(s) are spammed again, we'll have
something nice/stable/solid to revert back to.


Thanks,

Tantek

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