[SAC] Spam in Wiki

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Jeff McKenna
<jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is related to this same thread.

No, because below is the wiki...

> Mike Smith just reported to me now that he is unable to edit the OSGeo wiki
> all of a sudden (details below):
>
> - his username: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Msmitherdc
> - message received when trying to edit wiki: "Your user name or IP address
> has been blocked."
> - from him "The block was made by Neteler. The reason given is Spamming
> links to external sites."
> - Start of block: 20:14, 22 August 2011

Sorry my bad.

Since the our (Media)wiki is currently spammed to death, I have made
some major cleanup sessions. Apparently I got the wrong user.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:BlockList

> Mike is part of the WMS Bechmarking team for FOSS4G and has made many edits
> ...not sure what happened.  Can someone help him?  (he lives in #foss4g on
> IRC as "mdsmith"...he is there now)

I have simply unblocked him, everything should work ok again for him.

We REALLY need to implement something against the bot spammers.

Markus