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

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

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
>