HaskellWiki Update
There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of accounts to evade individual account blocks. To combat this, I have 1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits; 2. switched off account creation; 3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts. This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account creation. -- Ashley Yakeley
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:47:39 -0800, Ashley Yakeley <ashley@semantic.org> wrote:
There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of accounts to evade individual account blocks.
To combat this, I have
1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits; 2. switched off account creation; 3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts.
This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account creation.
Instead of switching off all new account creation, perhaps you could shut off account creation/access for just those domains for which spammers have been creating accounts? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^
Ashley Yakeley wrote:
There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of accounts to evade individual account blocks.
To combat this, I have
1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits; 2. switched off account creation; 3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts.
This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account creation.
Maybe it could help to restrict the account creation rate per IP? For example, every IP may only create one account per 12 hours. Regards, apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com
Not sure how much of this is already known, but thought I'd mention it just in case... Both Wikimedia and chongqed.org maintain a spam domain blacklist: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist http://blacklist.chongqed.org/ And there is Wikimedia extension that requires users to pass a captcha to make edits, but it only works with Wikimedia 1.6+: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit (I've never made an edit to the Haskell wiki, so for all I know there might be a captcha system in place already). Again, sorry if this is already common knowledge. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus < apfelmus@quantentunnel.de> wrote:
Ashley Yakeley wrote:
There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of accounts to evade individual account blocks.
To combat this, I have
1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits; 2. switched off account creation; 3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts.
This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account creation.
Maybe it could help to restrict the account creation rate per IP? For example, every IP may only create one account per 12 hours.
Regards, apfelmus
-- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com
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Ashley Yakeley wrote:
There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of accounts to evade individual account blocks.
To combat this, I have 1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits; 2. switched off account creation; 3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts.
This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account creation.
-- Ashley Yakeley
Darn, As someone who only maintained a Wiki account to customize the Look and feel of the wiki, I did wonder where my account had gone. It would be nice if there was a comment to this effect on the Login / <strike>Registration</strike> page of the Wiki. Also another possible solution (if it's possible) would be to allow general creation of read-only accounts and then have a manual / moderated process for upgrading accounts to read-write. TTFN, Struan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HaskellWiki-Update-tp21524334p21574749.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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Ashley Yakeley wrote:
There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of accounts to evade individual account blocks.
To combat this, I have 1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits; 2. switched off account creation; 3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts.
This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account creation.
-- Ashley Yakeley
Darn,
As someone who only maintained a Wiki account to customize the Look and feel of the wiki, I did wonder where my account had gone.
It would be nice if there was a comment to this effect on the Login / <strike>Registration</strike> page of the Wiki.
Also another possible solution (if it's possible) would be to allow general creation of read-only accounts and then have a manual / moderated process for upgrading accounts to read-write.
TTFN, Struan
Probably not. I've never heard of MediaWiki supporting read-only accounts (without abusing methods like blocking, obviously). -- gwern
Gwern Branwen wrote:
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM, NeonGraal wrote:
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Ashley Yakeley wrote:
There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of accounts to evade individual account blocks.
To combat this, I have 1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits; 2. switched off account creation; 3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts.
This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account creation.
-- Ashley Yakeley
Darn,
As someone who only maintained a Wiki account to customize the Look and feel of the wiki, I did wonder where my account had gone.
It would be nice if there was a comment to this effect on the Login / <strike>Registration</strike> page of the Wiki.
Also another possible solution (if it's possible) would be to allow general creation of read-only accounts and then have a manual / moderated process for upgrading accounts to read-write.
TTFN, Struan
Probably not. I've never heard of MediaWiki supporting read-only accounts (without abusing methods like blocking, obviously).
I think you can enable or disable permissions such as "edit" for groups of users in MediaWiki. You should be able to use groups to give the appropriate permissions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/219135/how-do-i-create-my-own-custom-grou... Amanda
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Robert Dickerson