[SAC] Fwd: Legit users vs. spam users

[Christian Willmes]

Hi,

another SMW dev recommended to install the QuestyCaptcha MW Extension 
[1], to get rid of the spam user registrations problem.

Ok?

Christian

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha

Am 23.11.2015 um 13:08 schrieb 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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