[SAC] Fwd: Legit users vs. spam users

[Christian Willmes]

Hi,

can someone please help in setting up the cron job? I guess I don't have 
the permissions.

The following command should be run once a day:

'php /var/www/wiki_osgeo/maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php'

Thanks,
Christian

On 13.01.2016 15:39, Christian Willmes wrote:
> 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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