Cleaning up wiki

[Chaitannya Mahatme]

Hello Everyone,

Can some of you volunteer as wiki admins. Recently there have been lot of spams on the wiki. There are spam filters in place, but then there are limitations to which it can filter out the spam.

Your job as admin would be to delete spam pages and a report a few keywords or patterns you identify of the spam articles.

Cheers !!!
Chaitannya

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[chetan patil]

Hi Chaitannya,

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Chaitannya Mahatme <chait...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can some of you volunteer as wiki admins. Recently there have been lot of spams on the wiki. There are spam filters in place, but then there are limitations to which it can filter out the spam.

Your job as admin would be to delete spam pages and a report a few keywords or patterns you identify of the spam articles.

This remind me of the first interaction with Navin Kabra where he showed me how spams algorithm work.

I'll do it. 

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Thank You and Warm Regards,

 
Chetan Arvind Patil,
www.chetanpatil.info

[tuxdna]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:01 PM, chetan patil <chtp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chaitannya,
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Chaitannya Mahatme <chait...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Can some of you volunteer as wiki admins. Recently there have been lot of
>> spams on the wiki. There are spam filters in place, but then there are
>> limitations to which it can filter out the spam.
>>
>> Your job as admin would be to delete spam pages and a report a few
>> keywords or patterns you identify of the spam articles.
>
> This remind me of the first interaction with Navin Kabra where he showed me
> how spams algorithm work.
> I'll do it.
>

IMHO, adding a simple captcha to wiki edits will also help.

/tuxdna

[tuxdna]

Assuming that the wiki is Media WIki based
(http://wiki.embeddednirvana.org/Main_Page )

here is the relevant page to configure captcha:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

/tuxdna

[Chaitannya Mahatme]

I was trying to avoid confirm edit earlier, but since no one is putting content on the wiki and there are more spams than articles it make sense to install confirm edit.

Cheers !!!
Chaitannya

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I believe there's a hero in all of us who keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most... even our dreams.
- Spider Man 2

[chetan patil]

Hi Chaitannya.

I was trying to avoid confirm edit earlier, but since no one is putting content on the wiki and there are more spams than articles it make sense to install confirm edit.

I think let Tuxdna do the thing. Give him the credentials.

Hi Tuxdna,

 

Assuming that the wiki is Media WIki based
(http://wiki.embeddednirvana.org/Main_Page )

here is the relevant page to configure captcha:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

May you please do it?