[SAC] Wiki is being spammed

[Alex M]

Brian,

Thanks for making initial contact. How do you suggest we proceed? Should
we convene a small wiki working group (Christian, Martin & ?) and have
them discuss via email with Kunal how to implement a solution?

Thanks,
Alex

On 01/16/2016 06:15 PM, Brian M Hamlin wrote:
> Hi All -
> 
>    I visited the Wikimedia Foundation HQ in downtown San Francisco just now 
> (15th Anniversary of Wikipedia)
> 
> One of the WMF principals would like to see our problems resolved..
> 
>      https://github.com/slaporte?tab=repositories
> 
> Direct technical contact, MediaWiki dev:
> 
>    Kunal Mehta  mwuser:legoktm
> 
>    legoktm -at- wikimedia.org
> 
>    Please update this list on progress..
> 
>    best regards from Berkeley, California
> 
>    - -Brian M Hamlin
> 
> 
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:53:43 +0000, Grant Slater <osgeo at firefishy.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Guys,
> 
>     I run the OpenStreetMap wiki. We recently combated a similar spam problem.
> 
>     Few tips:
>     * Enabled $wgEnableDnsBlacklist:
>     https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/blob/master/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb#L207
>     * $wgDnsBlacklistUrls:
>     https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/blob/master/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/LocalSettings.php.erb#L208
>     * $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;
>     * Increase $wgAutoblockExpiry
>     * $wgSpamRegex
>     * Install AbuseFilter extension:
>     https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/blob/master/cookbooks/mediawiki/templates/default/mw-ext-AbuseFilter.inc.php.erb
>     * Chat to me on IRC and I'll share the private AbuseFilter rules.
>     (Firefishy in #osgeo on freenode + #osm-dev on oftc)
>     * Use Extension:Nuke to clean up existing spam.
> 
>     Kind regards,
> 
>     Grant
> 
> 
> 
>     On 16 January 2016 at 13:17, Christian Willmes <mail at cwillmes.de> wrote:
>      > Yes, sounds good to me!
>      >
>      > Is it this [1] extension?
>      >
>      > Christian
>      >
>      > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Moderation
>      >
>      > On 16.01.2016 14:13, Markus Neteler wrote:
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> On Jan 16, 2016 1:50 PM, "Christian Willmes" <mail at cwillmes.de
>      >> <mailto:mail at cwillmes.de>> wrote:
>      >> >
>      >> > I disabled account creation again for now.
>      >>
>      >> In grasswiki.osgeo.org <http://grasswiki.osgeo.org> we have account
>      >> moderation on. Almost no spammers subscribe, so the overhead is close to
>      >> zero.
>      >>
>      >> Maybe try that also here?
>      >>
>      >> Markus
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
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