[SAC] Fwd: Legit users vs. spam users

[Christian Willmes]

Hi,

FYI. I was asking for help at the SMW mailing list, and got some 
answers, the second one is quite alarming, I think we should look into 
this spam user problem.
I will ask them for tools that can help.

Christian


-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
Betreff: 	Legit users vs. spam users
Datum: 	Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:42:25 +0100
Von: 	James HK <jamesin.hongkong.1 at gmail.com>
An: 	Christian Willmes <c.willmes at uni-koeln.de>
Kopie (CC): 	Karsten Hoffmeyer <karsten at hoffmeyer.info>



Hi,

Aside from SMW, looking at [0] where it looks like that a lot of users
have been created on your wiki that could be categorized as not legit
and you might want to introduce some counter measurements.

@Karsten can maybe help and list some tools/extensions to fight that
sort of unsolicited user spam.

[0] https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=250&days=14

Cheers

On 11/23/15, James HK <jamesin.hongkong.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A very quick look revealed:
>
> [0] contains related geo data where [1] does not because [2] contains
> the template which should not (as a redirect) contain any template.
> The template from [2] needs to be moved to [1]. I'm not quite sure why
> the User:Jmckenna redirect is missing from  Jeff_McKenna.
>
>> Now, some users, that appear to have correctly added the SMW data to
>> their User: pages, have the problem that they wont show up on the
>> Memeber Map.
>
> Where is the "Member map" that hosts the query and displays its
> members where [0] doesn't show up (on the [0] user page itself a map
> is shown)?.
>
> [0] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Browse/User:Wildintellect
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Browse/Jeff_McKenna
>
> [2]  https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Jmckenna&redirect=no
>
> Cheers
>
> On 11/23/15, Christian Willmes <c.willmes at uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I deployed SMW to the OSGeo wiki last week, to implement (in a first
>> step) a derictory including a map for the OSGeo Members.
>>
>> I set up a model [0] using mobo, and deployed it successfully.
>> Additionally I managed to import data from a now not anymore working
>> implementaion of a previous userMap using the DataTransfer extensioen.
>> You can read about this in more detail here [2].
>>
>> Now, some users, that appear to have correctly added the SMW data to
>> their User: pages, have the problem that they wont show up on the
>> Memeber Map.
>>
>> Here are two examples:
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Wildintellect
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Jmckenna&redirect=no
>>
>> Both users added their data using the according template, as described
>> here [3].
>>
>> I ran several time the "Data repair and upgrade" on Special:SMWAdmin and
>> the 'php maintenance/runJobs.php' on the server, because I thought its a
>> caching issue or something. But it did not solve the issue.
>>
>> Does anyone see what the problem is? Or what I could try to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Christian
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/cwillmes/OSGeoWiki
>> [1] https://github.com/Fannon/mobo
>> [2]
>> http://cwillmes.de/blog/2015/11/20/new-semanticmediawiki-based-osgeo-member-map/
>> [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Member_Map_documentation
>>
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