[ALUG] Wiki spam problem

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:51:47PM +0000, samwise wrote:
> 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.).

I don't have a huge amount of free time at present, so I've taken the
easiest option and configured the wiki to only allow registered users to
edit pages. There's no moderation on creating new users yet, so
hopefully it won't limit people too much.

J.

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