[SAC] Spam on the OSGeo Wiki

[Tyler Mitchell]

Good ideas Arnulf.  I have had others points out spam issues to me  
and wouldn't mind being an admin to help fix.

Tyler

On 13-Jan-07, at 5:30 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

>
> On Sat, January 13, 2007 11:13, Mateusz £oskot wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today, I removed a huge number of spam URLs from the OSGeo Wiki  
>> frontpage
>> and the FDO Provenance Review
>> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FDO_Provenance_Review).
>> I also scanned the wiki for some dirty words using the search  
>> engine, but
>> there may be still some accounts in the database which are used by
>> spammers.
>>
>> Could you please check the database and remove suspicious accounts.
>> I now one spammer to check, which spammed the FDO wiki page, it's  
>> called
>> "Explosive ice".
>>
>> Cheers
>> --
>> Mateusz £oskot
>> http://mateusz.loskot.net
>
> Hi Mateusz,
> thanks for the maintenance.
>
> Hi All,
> when we started the Wiki I repeatedly suggested to limit access to
> registered users and to block pages with content that is approved  
> policy.
> To my surprise (and happiness) both ideas were broadly rejected.  
> Security
> is lo, it i only required to create an account.
>
> Now that we do seem to have the on and off Spammer I exerted my
> considerable WikiSysop powers for the first time and blocked two  
> users.
> This has never happened before and therefore I think it is valid to  
> post
> this to both WebCom and SAC. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Additionally I want to remind that currently Frank Warmerdam, Markus
> Neteler, Arnulf Christl and the default WikiSysop have Bureaucrat and
> sysop powers.
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&group=sysop
> WikiSysops can block users or IPs, Bureaucrats can add others to the
> WikiSysop group (to prevent power accumulation with one individual  
> these
> are separate groups).
>
> I would suggest to add some more people to the sysop group to make  
> sure
> that any time around the world someone with this power can keep an  
> eye on
> the Wiki. Mateusz, if you accept that role maybe Frank could add you.
>
> Currently the Wiki is kindly hosted by terrestis and runs on a  
> separate
> server outside the OSGeo infratructure. Now that OSGeo has some  
> hardware
> under control we could move the Wiki too giving us a chance to give
> broader accees to the software and database. To do this MediaWiki and
> MySQL need to get installed (I guess MySQL is already there) and  
> the DNS
> for wiki.osgeo.org has to be changed to the new server, dump the  
> database.
> The transition should be very smooth. There is no hurry.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
>
> -- 
> Arnulf Christl
> http://www.wheregroup.com
>
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