[ALUG] Wiki spam problem

samwise samwise at bagshot-row.org
Mon Dec 3 13:51:47 GMT 2007


There's still a spam problem with the wiki - I just cleared out loads
of mainly chinese spam pages.  At least they don't appear to be
editing our own pages (perhaps a fix was put in by someone earlier?)
...

If anyone with admin rights wants to look into it, I wonder if we
could configure MoinMoin in any of the following ways:

a) restrict wiki to English only
b) only accept modifications with an explanatory comment (most of the
spam ones don't)
c) only accept modifications from registered users and require all new
accounts to be approved (guess most people who want an account already
have one, so that should only be requests from new users.  We can
always put a note on the wiki asking them to post to the mailing list
to get an account.).

Just some thoughts ...

Peter.



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