wiki spam

wiki spam

[Eric Sandeen]

We're back up to about a 3:1 ratio of spam to content on the wiki.

Constantly weeding it out is a poor use of our time... where are we at with this, have we required an account to create pages, at least?

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Re: wiki spam

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:53:14AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> We're back up to about a 3:1 ratio of spam to content on the wiki.
> 
> Constantly weeding it out is a poor use of our time... where are we at with this, have we required an account to create pages, at least?

I suspect Russell isn't reading the xfs list to actively any more.

Russell, any chance to disabllow posting for users that don't have an
account on the wiki?

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Re: wiki spam

[Russell Cattelan]

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On 7/24/12 8:23 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:53:14AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> We're back up to about a 3:1 ratio of spam to content on the wiki.
>>
>> Constantly weeding it out is a poor use of our time... where are we at with this, have we required an account to create pages, at least?
> 
> I suspect Russell isn't reading the xfs list to actively any more.
ya I just have time to skim it these days.

> 
> Russell, any chance to disabllow posting for users that don't have an
> account on the wiki?
Well unfortunately I seem to remember doing that a while back. (I'll
check to make sure). I did notice that there are accounts showing up to
just post spam :-(. I have been going in once in a while and looking at
the recent changes page and deleting new pages/changes that are spam.

Maybe I can change it to approved only accounts can make changes.
I'll look into it.


I suppose like anything else nothing is perfect at keeping the spam away.

-Russell



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Re: wiki spam

[Russell Cattelan]

On 7/24/12 8:23 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:53:14AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> We're back up to about a 3:1 ratio of spam to content on the wiki.
>>
>> Constantly weeding it out is a poor use of our time... where are we at with this, have we required an account to create pages, at least?
> I suspect Russell isn't reading the xfs list to actively any more.
>
> Russell, any chance to disabllow posting for users that don't have an
> account on the wiki?
Ok I updated mediawiki to 1.19 so that the ConfirmUser extension wold work.

All accounts must be approved by a sysop before they are active.
Hopefully I can just reject the obvious spam accounts.


There was some 1500 accounts on the system most of them with no edit's
so I just deleted those.

There is a bunch of spam accounts with 1 or 2 posts these should be deleted
with the mergeuser extension but that is a bit more time consuming.


Please let me know if the upgrade has caused any problems.

-Russell

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Wiki spam

[Øyvind A. Holm]

I've now had another session on the wiki (git.wiki.kernel.org) where
I've deleted spam that's piling up. It seems as the policy is to place
deleted pages into [[Category:Deleted]], and that's what I've done.
Can someone with the necessary muscles visit that category and delete
the pages that's in that category? It will be much easier to find new
spam pages when they're deleted. At the moment ther̈́e's 179 pages in
that category, so a little cleanup would be nice.

Also, there are lots of spambots registering spam users there, this
pollutes the user database and Special:RecentChanges . Would it be
possible to set up a CAPTCHA when trying to register an account? This
has been of great help at the wikis I'm helping out with. Before the
CAPTCHA, serveral hundred new spam users every day, after the CAPTCHA
was installed, not a single one.

Regards,
Øyvind (User:Sunny256)

Re: wiki spam

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 6/18/2012 8:33 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I just had to delete dozends of link farm spam entries on the xfs.org.
> 
> This is getting a bit out of control, so I'm wondring what we can do
> about it.
> 
> I wonder if it's reasonable only to hand out account if a user manually
> contacts one of the admins.  I don't want the bar high, just proving
> to be able to writing a human person mail basically.

Perfectly reasonable.  Quite frankly I was surprised long ago when I
learned it was totally open, given the small size of the XFS community,
and the opportunity for mischief, or just factual errors, ala many
Wikipedia articles.

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Re: wiki spam

[Dave Chinner]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:33:23AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I just had to delete dozends of link farm spam entries on the xfs.org.
> 
> This is getting a bit out of control, so I'm wondring what we can do
> about it.
> 
> I wonder if it's reasonable only to hand out account if a user manually
> contacts one of the admins.  I don't want the bar high, just proving
> to be able to writing a human person mail basically.

Sounds fine to me, I went through about a month ago and deleted a
bunch of spam myself. Even just requiring a confirmation email (i.e.
wiki sends an email with a confirm link) would be sufficient to
prevent most spam, I think....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Re: wiki spam

[Roger Willcocks]

On 18 Jun 2012, at 14:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> I just had to delete dozends of link farm spam entries on the xfs.org.
> 
> This is getting a bit out of control, so I'm wondring what we can do
> about it.
> 
> I wonder if it's reasonable only to hand out account if a user manually
> contacts one of the admins.  I don't want the bar high, just proving
> to be able to writing a human person mail basically.
> 

That sounds reasonable to me - the list's presumably not huge so there shouldn't be an enormous amount of work involved.

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wiki spam

[Christoph Hellwig]

I just had to delete dozends of link farm spam entries on the xfs.org.

This is getting a bit out of control, so I'm wondring what we can do
about it.

I wonder if it's reasonable only to hand out account if a user manually
contacts one of the admins.  I don't want the bar high, just proving
to be able to writing a human person mail basically.

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Re: Wiki Spam

[Mark Nelson]

Doh!

Thanks for the heads-up.  We'll deal with it.

Thanks,
Mark

On 5/31/12 2:05 AM, "SPONEM, Benoît" wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Just for information, there are a lot of spam in Ceph's wiki
> (http://ceph.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges,
> http://ceph.com/w/index.php?title=Special:LonelyPages&limit=250&offset=0
> <http://ceph.com/w/index.php?title=Special:LonelyPages&limit=250&offset=0>).
>
> Regards,
> Benoit
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Wiki Spam

["SPONEM, Benoît"]

Dear all,

Just for information, there are a lot of spam in Ceph's wiki
(http://ceph.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges,
http://ceph.com/w/index.php?title=Special:LonelyPages&limit=250&offset=0
<http://ceph.com/w/index.php?title=Special:LonelyPages&limit=250&offset=0>).

Regards,
Benoit

Wiki SPAM

[xen-devel.GarveyPatrickD]

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/The_best_way_to_Download_Free_Nintendo_Ds_Game_titles
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/The_Reasons_Why_The_Stokke_Sleepi_Bedding_Selection_Is_Better_To_Get

And then, there's these two:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/McClurg
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Trash

which may not be SPAM, but are not very useful in the Main wiki namespace.

Wiki spam

[Tommi Virtanen]

Hi, I stumbled on a bunch of spam in the Ceph wiki, but don't have
admin rights so I can't clear it up properly. Here are the recent
spammy users (links neutered so as not to give them google juice):

ttp://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/Special:Contributions/Okobaho
ttp://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/Special:Contributions/Lindapfields
ttp://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/Special:Contributions/Evaevgrc
ttp://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chesterbdb
ttp://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ling11714

Re: Wiki spam

[Sledz, Steffen]

Am 04.01.2011 21:41, schrieb Bernhard Guillon:
> What about a SpamBlacklist [1] with a regex to everything and a
> SpamWhitelist for OpenEmbedded related links? This will not need any
> captchas and do not help google. For adding a new item to the whitelist
> a request to the mailing list is necessary.

SpamBlacklist is up and running now.

But currently <http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist> is used.

Let's try this first. We can come back to your suggestion if it does not work well enough.

Steffen

PS@melo-admins: What about the policy to track all config changes with git? A 'git status' in /etc shows a lot of 'Changed but not updated'. :(

Re: Wiki spam

[Bernhard Guillon]

On 04.01.2011 16:16, Steffen Sledz wrote:
>
> I can try to add the ConfirmEdit[1] mediawiki extension for this purpose.
>

ConfirmEdits default math question is looking too simple. reCAPTCHA 
might be better? Recent anti reCHAPCHA tools having rates about 17%. It 
is also solvable for blind people. The only drawback, it helps google to 
steal books...

What about a SpamBlacklist [1] with a regex to everything and a 
SpamWhitelist for OpenEmbedded related links? This will not need any 
captchas and do not help google. For adding a new item to the whitelist 
a request to the mailing list is necessary.

Best regards
Bernhard Guillon

1 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist

Re: Wiki spam

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/1/4 Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>:
> On 01/04/2011 01:15 PM, AJ ONeal wrote:
>>
>> I'm pro captcha.
>
> Since we are having a poll, I am for anything that helps out the guys doing
> admin work :)
>
>
I fully agree!

but if there are alternatives that are as effective as the captcha,
I'm in favour of those. I find the current captchas hard to read and
it does not really help that it are obscure words that I (as a
non-native speaker) do not know.

Frans.

Re: Wiki spam

[Philip Balister]

On 01/04/2011 01:15 PM, AJ ONeal wrote:
> I'm pro captcha.

Since we are having a poll, I am for anything that helps out the guys 
doing admin work :)

Philip

>
> AJ ONeal
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Steffen Sledz<sledz@dresearch.de>  wrote:
>
>> Am 23.12.2010 23:14, schrieb Khem Raj:
>>>> ...
>>>> It looks like someone is spamming our wiki with new users :-(
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas where to go from here?
>>>
>>> Add a captcha when creating new user acct
>>
>> I can try to add the ConfirmEdit[1] mediawiki extension for this purpose.
>>
>> Would a captcha be accepted for user registration by the community?
>> Captchas for the edits itself i consider to be overkill.
>>
>> Steffen
>>
>> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
>>
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Re: Wiki spam

[AJ ONeal]

I'm pro captcha.

AJ ONeal


On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch.de> wrote:

> Am 23.12.2010 23:14, schrieb Khem Raj:
> >> ...
> >> It looks like someone is spamming our wiki with new users :-(
> >>
> >> Any ideas where to go from here?
> >
> > Add a captcha when creating new user acct
>
> I can try to add the ConfirmEdit[1] mediawiki extension for this purpose.
>
> Would a captcha be accepted for user registration by the community?
> Captchas for the edits itself i consider to be overkill.
>
> Steffen
>
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
>
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Re: Wiki spam

[Steffen Sledz]

Am 23.12.2010 23:14, schrieb Khem Raj:
>> ...
>> It looks like someone is spamming our wiki with new users :-(
>>
>> Any ideas where to go from here?
> 
> Add a captcha when creating new user acct

I can try to add the ConfirmEdit[1] mediawiki extension for this purpose.

Would a captcha be accepted for user registration by the community? Captchas for the edits itself i consider to be overkill.

Steffen

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

Re: Wiki spam

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Cliff Brake <cliff.brake@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can someone with the ability please delete the following spam pages on
>> the Wiki?
>>
>> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Acai_-_acai_berry_detox_discount_orders_-_extreme_acai_fatburn
>> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Ashwagandha_-_ashwagandha_withania_somnifera_-_ashwagandha_erectile
>> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/MBT_Shoes_Clinically_Beneficial_for_Feet
>> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Ashwagandha_-_order_cheap_ashwagandha_-_purchase_generic_ashwagandha
>> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Topamax_-_fda_lamictal_abilify_topamax_-_topamax_clip_magnets
>
> Done.
>
> It looks like someone is spamming our wiki with new users :-(
>
> Any ideas where to go from here?

Add a captcha when creating new user acct

>
> Thanks,
> Cliff
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Re: Wiki spam

[Cliff Brake]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone with the ability please delete the following spam pages on
> the Wiki?
>
> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Acai_-_acai_berry_detox_discount_orders_-_extreme_acai_fatburn
> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Ashwagandha_-_ashwagandha_withania_somnifera_-_ashwagandha_erectile
> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/MBT_Shoes_Clinically_Beneficial_for_Feet
> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Ashwagandha_-_order_cheap_ashwagandha_-_purchase_generic_ashwagandha
> http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Topamax_-_fda_lamictal_abilify_topamax_-_topamax_clip_magnets

Done.

It looks like someone is spamming our wiki with new users :-(

Any ideas where to go from here?

Thanks,
Cliff

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Wiki spam

[Ben Gamari]

Can someone with the ability please delete the following spam pages on
the Wiki?

http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Acai_-_acai_berry_detox_discount_orders_-_extreme_acai_fatburn
http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Ashwagandha_-_ashwagandha_withania_somnifera_-_ashwagandha_erectile
http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/MBT_Shoes_Clinically_Beneficial_for_Feet
http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Ashwagandha_-_order_cheap_ashwagandha_-_purchase_generic_ashwagandha
http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Topamax_-_fda_lamictal_abilify_topamax_-_topamax_clip_magnets

Thanks,

- Ben

Re: Wiki SPAM

[Marco Cavallini]

Eric Bénard ha scritto, Il 24/11/2010 08:50:
> Hi,
> 
> http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Yjytalamago
> 
> is it posssible to remove this user which spent several hours to spam
> the wiki ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 

Yes I agree, he spammed a lot of pages

Re: Wiki SPAM

[Chris Tapp]

On 24 Nov 2010, at 07:50, Eric Bénard wrote:

> http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Yjytalamago
>
> is it posssible to remove this user which spent several hours to  
> spam the wiki ?

My browser warns me that the "reserve website" linked from the  
modified pages (if that's the spam?) contains malware.

Chris

Wiki SPAM

[Eric Bénard]

Hi,

http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Yjytalamago

is it posssible to remove this user which spent several hours to spam the wiki ?

Thanks,
Eric

Re: wiki spam

[Chris Mason]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 10:49 +0100, Andr=C3=A9-Sebastian Liebe wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I've spotted some new pages (probably encrypted) in the wiki:
> http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Special:RecentChanges
>=20
> I deleted it's contents but someone might delete the pages at all and=
 check=20
> the user registration logs to block them.

Thanks for finding that, I'm getting the pages deleted.

-chris


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wiki spam

[André-Sebastian Liebe]

Hello,

I've spotted some new pages (probably encrypted) in the wiki:
http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Special:RecentChanges

I deleted it's contents but someone might delete the pages at all and c=
heck=20
the user registration logs to block them.

thanks,
Andr=E9
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Re: wiki spam

[Christian Leber]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:16:53PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> The wiki had an annoying case of spam; I fixed some of it. Can we
> please make only registered users change pages to avoid it in the
> future? (are there other viable solutions to wiki spam?)

Recent moinmoin versions have a spam filter, is this one allready used
in the xen wiki?


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RE: wiki spam

[Ian Pratt]

> The wiki had an annoying case of spam; I fixed some of it. 
> Can we please make only registered users change pages to 
> avoid it in the future? (are there other viable solutions to 
> wiki spam?)

That's really annoying -- thanks for tidying up.

It would be good to hear suggestions as to how best to avoid this in
future. I'd prefer not to have to remember yet another web login, but
maybe we'll have to do this (I suspect sharing accounts with bugzilla is
probably tricky).

Ian

wiki spam

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

The wiki had an annoying case of spam; I fixed some of it. Can we
please make only registered users change pages to avoid it in the
future? (are there other viable solutions to wiki spam?)

Cheers,
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