Spam on the site: how should we deal with it?

[Marc Laporte]

http://recentchangescamp.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&limit=500

Close registration? Approve new registration?

Thanks!

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[Peter Kaminski]

I'd vote for "approve new registration," probably with:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount

How should we remove the existing spam?

Pete

[Jon Davis]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 19:59, Peter Kaminski <kami...@istori.com> wrote:

How should we remove the existing spam?

Pete

How about a judicious application of "Jon bashes some heads in"?  Also known as "Thermonuclear wikiwarfare" and "What spam?"

I'll see about chomping down on the spam w/o taking away everyones ability to edit (again).

-Jon

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[Dave Crosby]

How should we remove the existing spam?

Pete

How about a judicious application of "Jon bashes some heads in"?  Also known as "Thermonuclear wikiwarfare" and "What spam?"

I'll see about chomping down on the spam w/o taking away everyones ability to edit (again).

-Jon

And I will pop in daily to remove any new stuff. 

Dave

[Dave Crosby]

Or I would if were an admin, anybody help there?

Dave

http://recentchangescamp.org/wiki/User:DaveCrosby

[Mark Dilley]

Done

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[Dave Crosby]

Thanks, Mark. Works fine.

Dave

[Jon Davis]

Ok. Status of things:

• MediaWiki has been upgraded to the latest from SVN.
• Set the wiki to require email confirmation before you can edit.  Most people have already done so, but the few of you who havent (my self included) will have to do so before you edit.
• Since I noticed that many of the bot created accounts had confirmed email addresses (fancy lil bastards).... I've also added SimpleCaptcha to REGISTRATION ONLY.

Hopefully this will calm things down a bit.

-Jon