[rkward-devel] Status update

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

On Monday 17 September 2007, Stefan Rödiger wrote:
> > 3a - For the wiki: Do not allow to create new users any more. New users
> > will have to be created manually by a trusted user. Of course this defies
> > some important advantages of having a wiki in the first place, but at the
> > moment, the effort to contain the spam is just getting out of hands.
> > Either way, it would also be nice, if some of you could volunteer to act
> > as Sysops for the wiki. That is, I'll give you some additional rights, so
> > you can delete spam pages and block spam accounts. Then, maybe every once
> > in a while, you could take a look at the "Recent Changes" page in the
> > wiki, and clear up any vandalism that you can find.
>
> I volunteer.

Ok, you are now a "sysop" in the wiki. This means you can block users (an 
expiry time of "indefinite" is generally appropriate, as the accounts in 
question are dedicated spammers), and delete pages they created (note: Make 
sure not to delete pages that actually once had legitimate content, as the 
entire history of that page is deleted; in most cases the spammers seem to 
create entirely new pages, however).

About creating new users, I have not taken any actions so far, as there's 
still Prasenjits suggestion about using a Captcha to block bots. If anybody 
has the time to look into how this can be done with MediaWiki, it would be 
much appreciated.

> Something of topic. I would like to have access to the rkward-mailing list
> (besides the source forge service) via http://gmane.org/ . It's fast and
> has some other advantages while reading on-line. Check it and find out if
> you like it. If you do so I will apply there.

No objections. Of course having the archive mirrored would be one more reason 
to make extra sure spam never reaches the archive in the first place.

Regards
Thomas
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