Wiki vandalism
Has anyone noticed that there has been a TON of spam on the wiki? This much spam hasn’t been seen for as long as I can remember. How effective are the tools we have available for blocking these vandals?
Has anyone noticed that there has been a TON of spam on the wiki? This much spam hasn’t been seen for as long as I can remember. How effective are the tools we have available for blocking these vandals?
posted by Hix at 02 Sep 2007 22:25:00 UTC Comments (5)
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Kevan:
I can strongly recommend recaptcha if 75th Trombone wants to install it - it’s got its own Mediawiki plugin, and is very easy to get up and running. I think most wiki spam is automated - I’m running a few MediaWiki installs, and haven’t noticed any spam problems since I installed this captcha.
75th Trombone:
I’m on it.
Kevan:
Is it worth doling out some wiki admin privileges so that people can help clear this up?
Chronos Phaenon:
I can volunteer for that. Please give me sysop privileges, so I can delete vandalized pages.
75th Trombone:
You two (as well as a couple of others) are now admins.