[Qemu-devel] Wiki spam

[Qemu-devel] Wiki spam

[Sune Marcher]

Hi folks,

sorry if this is the wrong place to post - couldn't find any other 
contact information. Just wanted to let you know that multiple pages of 
the wiki have had spam links added recently, so whoever is in charge 
might want to give the wiki a good scrubbing :)

Re: [Qemu-devel] Wiki spam

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Sune Marcher <sm@flork.dk> wrote:
> sorry if this is the wrong place to post - couldn't find any other contact
> information. Just wanted to let you know that multiple pages of the wiki
> have had spam links added recently, so whoever is in charge might want to
> give the wiki a good scrubbing :)

Thanks.  I have a regular wiki account so I checked the Recent Changes
page and undid the spam changes that I saw:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] Wiki spam

[Brad Hards]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 03:15:06 PM Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Thanks.  I have a regular wiki account so I checked the Recent Changes
> page and undid the spam changes that I saw:
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges
Is there a way to completely remove it? There is still spam on the wiki 
showing at:
http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Special:DeadendPages&limit=500&offset=0

I'd prefer not to have it in the history at all if thats possible.

Brad

Re: [Qemu-devel] Wiki spam

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 03:15:06 PM Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> Thanks.  I have a regular wiki account so I checked the Recent Changes
>> page and undid the spam changes that I saw:
>>
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges
> Is there a way to completely remove it? There is still spam on the wiki
> showing at:
> http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Special:DeadendPages&limit=500&offset=0
>
> I'd prefer not to have it in the history at all if thats possible.

Only an administrator can delete pages:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deleting_a_page

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] Wiki spam

[Stefan Weil]

Am 04.07.2011 10:05, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 03:15:06 PM Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> Thanks.  I have a regular wiki account so I checked the Recent Changes
>>> page and undid the spam changes that I saw:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges
>> Is there a way to completely remove it? There is still spam on the wiki
>> showing at:
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Special:DeadendPages&limit=500&offset=0
>>
>> I'd prefer not to have it in the history at all if thats possible.
>
> Only an administrator can delete pages:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deleting_a_page
>
> Stefan

Wiki spammers are still very active on qemu.org (see
http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges).

The QEMU wiki needs more technical protection against spam
and also more administrators who can remove spam pages
(I can't, so I simply emptied the pages I just found).

Cheers,
Stefan Weil

Re: [Qemu-devel] Wiki spam

[Anthony Liguori]

On 07/15/2011 12:24 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:

> Wiki spammers are still very active on qemu.org (see
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges).
>
> The QEMU wiki needs more technical protection against spam
> and also more administrators who can remove spam pages
> (I can't, so I simply emptied the pages I just found).

There's no simple solution to spam.  Even captcha's are limited as many 
spammers are just using mechanical turks plus OCR to defeat captchas.

recaptcha had some problems recently so I had to disable it on the wiki 
which led to an influx of spam.  It seems to be working fine again so 
I've reenabled it.  Hopefully the spam activity will dramatically drop 
again.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
> Stefan Weil
>
>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Wiki spam

[Stefan Weil]

Am 15.07.2011 23:06, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 07/15/2011 12:24 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>
>> Wiki spammers are still very active on qemu.org (see
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges).
>>
>> The QEMU wiki needs more technical protection against spam
>> and also more administrators who can remove spam pages
>> (I can't, so I simply emptied the pages I just found).
>
> There's no simple solution to spam.  Even captcha's are limited as 
> many spammers are just using mechanical turks plus OCR to defeat 
> captchas.
>
> recaptcha had some problems recently so I had to disable it on the 
> wiki which led to an influx of spam.  It seems to be working fine 
> again so I've reenabled it.  Hopefully the spam activity will 
> dramatically drop again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori

I just spent again 15 minutes removing spam from the wiki. That's not 
really fun.

Adding a new user account should require confirmation by mail. This 
extension
can also help a little bit: 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof.
Even more restrictive would be 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount.

And the wiki still needs administrators who are allowed to really remove
spam pages (try http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:ShortPages to get the page 
titles).

Regards,

Stefan Weil