Sunday, September 02, 2007

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?

posted by Hix at 02 Sep 2007 22:25:00 UTC Comments (5)

Comments

Kevan: he/him

02-09-2007 22:44:32 UTC

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:

04-09-2007 02:32:07 UTC

I’m on it.

Kevan: he/him

04-09-2007 07:56:49 UTC

Is it worth doling out some wiki admin privileges so that people can help clear this up?

ChronosPhaenon:

04-09-2007 10:48:35 UTC

I can volunteer for that. Please give me sysop privileges, so I can delete vandalized pages.

75th Trombone:

06-09-2007 23:06:19 UTC

You two (as well as a couple of others) are now admins.