[SAC] Fwd: Legit users vs. spam users

[Christian Willmes]

Ok, I re-enabled account creation now.

And I modified the subscription email [1], according to Markus proposal.

Additionally, I uncommented the '$wgChacePage = false;', because the 
wiki is/was very slow (caused high server load). And this statement was 
included way back in the config for the old version of the usermap, that 
is not used anymore now.

Please all keep an eye on the wiki, if something does not work anymore 
due to the caching change.

Thanks,
Christian

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Createaccount-text

On 13.01.2016 13:04, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2016 12:40 PM, "Christian Willmes" <mail at cwillmes.de 
> <mailto:mail at cwillmes.de>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did not find a better solution for this spam problem. The captcha 
> solution, that Markus installed and tryed, is what is recommended by 
> the MW community [0].
> > Should we re-enable user creation on the wiki?
>
> Yes, it is highly needed. Also for the code sprint in Paris, people 
> want to enroll.
>
> > Then we would need to deal with the spam somehow, for example by 
> running the RemoveUnusedAccounts.php [1] via cron (once a day or so)?
>
> Yes. Perhaps with a modification of the  subscription email that the 
> link expires in 24hs.
>
> Best
> Markus
>
>
>
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