'Ethical Spammers' Spamming up the wiki.
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They are back. People or bots are now registering to spam. Its only happened a little bit, but its happening. Ive blocked the accounts responsible, but it doesnt stop them.
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist For a list of the usernames
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/w/index.php ... oldid=1835 - an example of their work.
They seem to only target pages that do not exists, like the Units:Animation page, Zaphods and SmockingWrekage's User: pages, and a page called W:HTML Elements. Dunno whats with that one.
I dont think there is anything we can really do about this, but im just letting people know about it.
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist For a list of the usernames
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/w/index.php ... oldid=1835 - an example of their work.
They seem to only target pages that do not exists, like the Units:Animation page, Zaphods and SmockingWrekage's User: pages, and a page called W:HTML Elements. Dunno whats with that one.
I dont think there is anything we can really do about this, but im just letting people know about it.
There are wiki extensions that only allow registred users that are aproved to edit the pages? So register -> approvement (Maelstrom/Fnordia?) -> editing
Problem is: you now have to have 3 accounts just to use the spring site:
- phpBB
- Mantis
- Wiki
I heard there are quite simple ways to use one acc for all the systems. Anyone know some more?
Problem is: you now have to have 3 accounts just to use the spring site:
- phpBB
- Mantis
- Wiki
I heard there are quite simple ways to use one acc for all the systems. Anyone know some more?
It would probably be good to add some sort of captcha to the wiki signup, just like the forum has. It could also be present on edit pages for unregistered users, so we could turn off the registration requirement. I didn't find any such addition to mediawiki though. Guess I could add one myself.
As for using just one accounts for all systems, that would require modifying all the account handling for two of them. That is probably a bit too much work, unless it's already been done by someone else already.
As for using just one accounts for all systems, that would require modifying all the account handling for two of them. That is probably a bit too much work, unless it's already been done by someone else already.
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Tim Blokdijk
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