[SAC] Spam in Wiki

Seven (aka Arnulf) seven at arnulf.us
Tue Apr 19 09:08:50 EDT 2011


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Folks,
I have been neglecting to check the Wiki for spam and now that I did it
took me quite some time to remove lots of stupid crap (just a random
example of one type of hard to remove spam [1]). Spammer take advantage
of the Wiki not searching user talk pages when using the user's
contribution function and put stuff there instead of their main user
page. Maybe an update would also help (1.15.2 is a year old now).

While most type of that spam does not really hurt too much it does make
things look badly maintained. Should we step up the barrier to editing
by adding email authentication during account creation? Or will this
prevent the newbie from contributing?

The other option would be add Open ID or - better even - allow editing
with the regular OGSeo account (which I believe already includes email
authentication). What is the status of the CRM, although this might be a
separate thread.

Thought we might want to discuss this here before making and deleting
lots of tickets.

Cheers,
Arnulf

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=essays&go=Go

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