Hello, on Samstag, 31. Juli 2010, pistazienfresser (see profile) wrote:
On 30/07/10 21:01, Rajko M. wrote:
One extension that will allow selective deletion of article versions with spam will help in this respect.
There are two options: a) Oversight extensio: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversight b) MediaWiki has this feature built-in now (disabled by default) - see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RevisionDelete The difference seems to be that the built-in function has a show/hide link. Deleted revisions are still listed in page history (and can be undeleted), but are not accessable anymore for non-admin users. The Oversight extension does a more permanent cleanup - the revision won't be shown in the page history anymore, and undeleting means to run a SQL command directly on the database. (In practise this will probably mean "undelete impossible" for the openSUSE wikis.)
2) Or/and a list page (easy to find) a user can use to put spammed wiki pages on it and some users with privileges that put that page on their watchlists?
A "ToDo"-list for pages to un-spam is a good idea. Watchlist entries only work if the spammers always spam on the same pages - I doubt this will happen ;-)
3) Or/and an extension with a blacklist for some links before they are made: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist But this may be a very hard act - would you (plural, list) rate this useful and appropriate (more useful than harmful)?
I don't think it would be harmful, but maintaining the blacklist might be more work than deleting the actual spam ;-) (Note: I don't know how many spam entries per day appear. Can someone give some stats?)
3 a) Import just the extension without using the not-openSUSE blacklist and create a blacklist of openSUSE's own (with a page for suggestions for this blacklist)?
Yes, let's have a page where we add links to spam pages ourself!!!11!!! That will save the poor, overworked spammers lots of work. Proposed title: en.opensuse.org/cialis-viagra-poker-texas-holdem *SCNR*
3 b) Import the extension and the media-Wiki blacklist and use a witelist of openSUSE's own (with a page for suggestions for this whitelist)?
Sounds like a better solution. However I wonder if we need a whitellist at all - I hope that pages like *.opensuse.org, *.novell.com, sourceforge, github etc. are not on any blacklist... But the basic question remains: do we have "enough" spam so that it is worth to implement spam protection? Regards, Christian Boltz -- The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org