Re: [Gramps-devel] names of uploaded files in the wiki.

[Nick W. <ni...@be...>]

I am currently looking at the range of account verification type 
extensions for MediaWiki, which might slow down the initial signing up 
process but result in less spam overall.

It is sad that Jerome has to go through so much to keep the wiki spam 
free - if I can identify a good method of 'pre-screening' that might 
reduce the account creations while not causing too much work, I'll give 
it a try on the wiki.

It is that constant tension: we want to make it as easy as possible to 
get contributions, but if you do, you open it up for the extra work 
involved when it gets spammed.

Nick
Tauranga, NZ

On 14/03/12 19:58, jerome wrote:
> Tim,
>
>> Then, (or sooner) could you remove that particular rule?
>
> I commented/disabled this rule when I saw your post:
> http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Romjerome
>
>> I suggest that it might now be time to institute a
>> pre-registaration system
>> for people who want to edit the wiki.
>
> In fact, there is already something like that on some protected pages.
> New users cannot edit such a protected pages, this can be done after some time.
>
> The problem was also the automated spamming.
> It often creates an account, edit an username and a discussion page.
> I assume for not being rejected there is a random username generator with numbers and letters. Avoiding numbers on pages was reducing spamming a lot!
>
> Blacklists sometimes block page creation and often uploaded images.
>
> Note, to look at some 'New pages'[1] and 'Recent changes' feed[2] can also monitor new spams.
>
>
> [1] http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:NewPages
> [2] http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom
>
>
> Jérôme
>
>
>
> --- En date de : Mar 13.3.12, Tim Lyons<guy...@gm...>  a écrit :
>
>> De: Tim Lyons<guy...@gm...>
>> Objet: Re: [Gramps-devel] names of uploaded files in the wiki.
>> À: gra...@li...
>> Date: Mardi 13 mars 2012, 22h01
>>
>> jerome wrote
>>>
>>> Maybe it is one of my rules set on wiki, which are
>> doing this...
>>>
>>> We often got spamming on wiki.
>>> After a lot of spams, I tried one rule which seems to
>> work, but which
>>> might also block new pages with a number!
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I thought it might be that.
>>
>> I suggest that it might now be time to institute a
>> pre-registaration system
>> for people who want to eidt the wiki. I notice that quite a
>> few
>> technical/genealogy sites seem to do this.
>>
>> As it is now, the 'recent chnages' page is useless, because
>> it just has long
>> lists of spam, and we are all terribly grateful for all the
>> work you do to
>> block and delete spam, but it seems too much work!
>>
>> Then, (or sooner) could you remove that particular rule?
>>
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