[SAC] Proposals for reducing spam on wiki.osgeo

[Frank Warmerdam]

Markus / Leo,

I have taken the liberty of granting Leo full admin rights in the wiki.

Best regards,
Frank

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Leo Harris <leo_harris at hotmail.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I have been talking with Markus Neteler about how to reduce spam on the
> > osgeo wiki.
> >
> > I think a combination of these would be useful:
> > - Have more people able to delete pages and users
>
> I would propose Leo Harris to be one of these persons.
> He does a great ob on cleaning spam:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Leo
>
> but instead of blanking he should be able to delete them
> (otherwise I always have to do that = double work).
>
> > - Make it easier for those people to delete pages and users quickly
> (maybe
> > it is easy now, I do not know)
> > - Make it easier for "regular" wiki users to report pages or users to be
> > deleted
> > - Make it impossible for a user to add external links to a page if they
> have
> > not enough edits already (I do not know if this is possible)
> > - Make it impossible to add external links if the links are on a
> blacklist
> > (I guess this is already true).  And update this list as necessary.
> > - Make it easy to search users (like all users over 1 year old with no
> > edits, all users under 1 month old with 1 or 2 edits)
> >
> > I think the spam situation is now not so bad as it was, but it is
> > continuous.  I would like any comments to my suggestions above.
>
> While I am not familiar with the Mediawiki extensions,
> I'd vote for the first, to upgrade the status of Leo.
>
> thanks
> Markus
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