On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 16:05, pistazienfresser wrote:
http://wiki.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&curid=544&diff=17698&oldid=17399
http://wiki.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=prev&oldid=17351
Wiki vandalism like this is tough to combat in my experience. Flagged revisions really does help - but it comes at a cost... overhead for approvers, and it prevents instant editing. On other Wikis (like the OOo Wiki), I've implemented (with reasonably good results): - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bad_Behavior - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA and set up $wgSpamRegex with the most common words used in Wiki Spam. These extensions etc are working and we've reduced Spam from an hourly problem to something that has to be dealt with a couple of times per month.
is there any plan to secure the group of users/to limit the creation of new users and of dealing with vandalism in general?
Isn't an action like this rather counter productive? The point of Wikis is for collaboration on input. If you lock down the users.. or raise the bar too high, you starve the Wiki of the few new contributors.
I think it is possible to do a lot less obvious and more dangerous spamming/malicious things than the examples above.
Sure. That's the risk of the internet and Wikis in general.
I cannot speak about the best overall plan for the wiki but let me just state that Iwecan ask our IS&T guys to block the accounts used in case of such vandalisms - Henne, I can give you details on what to do to get it done, A page for normal users on that or where and how to deal with vandalism may be fine?
Anyone with Admin access on the WIki can and should be able to deal with the WIki Spam fairly effectively (including blocking the spammers) Account blocking at the Novell level... that's another animal :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org