Hello Dimi,
do you have a recent backup of wiki.winehq.org? The bloody spammers went nuts and even renamed the FrontPage to one of their spammer pages... I tried to move it back but MoinMoin didn't let me as it generated a new standard FrontPage. And it seems I have removed by mistake our real FrontPage before I could copy and paste its content over :(
So could you please restore the FrontPage from the backup? While you are at it please block those 3 accounts used by the spammer(s).
thanks bye michael
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:33:45 +0100 Michael Stefaniuc mstefani@redhat.com wrote:
So could you please restore the FrontPage from the backup? While you are at it please block those 3 accounts used by the spammer(s).
I was able to restore the content using the Wayback Machine's Dec. 24 snapshot.
We need better spam controls on the wiki. It's been suggested before that automated registration be turned off and new users have to manually request accounts (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33470). I agree with that suggestion; the only thing that keeps spam off the forum is the forced moderation.
On 01/11/2016 01:10 AM, Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:33:45 +0100 Michael Stefaniuc mstefani@redhat.com wrote:
So could you please restore the FrontPage from the backup? While you are at it please block those 3 accounts used by the spammer(s).
I was able to restore the content using the Wayback Machine's Dec. 24 snapshot.
Many thanks Rosanne!
We need better spam controls on the wiki. It's been suggested before that automated registration be turned off and new users have to manually request accounts (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33470). I agree with that suggestion; the only thing that keeps spam off the forum is the forced moderation.
bye michael
Rosanne DiMesio wrote on Mon, 11 Jan 2016:
We need better spam controls on the wiki. It's been suggested before that automated registration be turned off and new users have to manually request accounts (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33470). I agree with that suggestion; the only thing that keeps spam off the forum is the forced moderation.
FWIW, we use the Mediawiki SpamBlacklist extensions to great effect with the following blacklists:
$wgSpamBlacklistFiles = array(
"http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spam_blacklist&action=raw&am...",
"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist&actio..." );
It delegates the collection of spamming URLs to Wikipedia and Wikimedia, whom are are very good at it. I assume there are ways to incorporate these blacklists in MoinMoin too.
Spammers don't even seem to bother to create accounts anymore very often (http://wiki.freepascal.org/Special:BlockList and http://wiki.freepascal.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&dir=prev&am...), although for a while I did regularly update our custom captcha to make it increasingly harder to handle with a regexp (as I assume that's what they used).
Jonas
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 18:10:46 -0600 Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net wrote:
We need better spam controls on the wiki. It's been suggested before that automated registration be turned off and new users have to manually request accounts (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33470). I agree with that suggestion; the only thing that keeps spam off the forum is the forced moderation.
We've got a very persistant spammer; I just had to restore the FrontPage again. He or she also tried to post on the forum this morning, but of course didn't get past moderation.