[rkward-devel] Status update

[Stefan Rödiger]

Am Dienstag, 18. September 2007 00:06:21 schrieb 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.

Okay, I try to do my best.

>
> > 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.

okay

> Of course having the archive mirrored would be one more 
> reason to make extra sure spam never reaches the archive in the first
> place.

does this mean I should wait until all new actions regarding spam are 
established?

>
> Regards
> Thomas

Stefan