From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50421) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqlDO-0003ay-1s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:47:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqlDE-0006V8-GW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:47:37 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f173.google.com ([209.85.161.173]:41005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RqlDE-0006Uy-Df for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:47:28 -0500 Received: by ggnh1 with SMTP id h1so974943ggn.4 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:47:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F229CDB.8050608@codemonkey.ws> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:47:23 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4F226AE3.3050305@msgid.tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <4F226AE3.3050305@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] cry for help: wiki.qemu.org spam List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Tokarev Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel On 01/27/2012 03:14 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > The amount of spam our wiki.qemu.org collects, is > increasing every day. It was easy several months > ago to manually delete these pages once a week to > keep wiki spam-free, now they sometimes manage to > re-create a page while I delete it! > > No, it is not counted in 1000s per day - not yet > anyway. But 10..20 new users with the same amount > of new spam pages per day become a norm. > > To see how it looks like, see the RecentChanges: > > http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges > > There, each new user adds one spam page. And see > this link > > http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0 > > to see my actions too. > > What complicates things alot for me is the fact > that now, after wiki changes, *every* "Delete page" > operation takes 30..60 seconds to complete, and > during all this time the wiki is not doing anything. > This should be fixed too, I think. > > Now, I think the best course is to restrict new > user creation, require moderation for new users. > The best will be to ask them to write some words > in the confirmation email as of why they want the > account, -- so that the moderator will be able to > tell somewhat if this is for real or not; but I've > no idea if such a feature exists in mediawiki. > > I can play moderational role, -- this at least should > be significantly easier than my current delete page > approach. > > And if not, I'd love to see Nuke extension enabled -- > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke -- which > should help with page deletion. Nuke's now available. Let me look into how moderation would work.. And thanks for helping keep the wiki spam free! Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Any other suggestions are ofcourse welcome. > > Thanks, > > /mjt >