Re: [Qemu-devel] cry for help: wiki.qemu.org spam

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 27.01.2012 13:47, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> 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
>>
>
>

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version shows the extensions
used by Mediawiki. Look for "Spam prevention" - there are lots of
extensions installed there for that purpose.

Cheers,
Stefan Weil