Hi,
Is it possible to have a stronger signup procedure for the wiki? I think something as simple as email confirmation should do the trick. Simply entering a username and password is making it really simple for bots to play havoc.
On 14-Apr-07, at 11:09 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
Is it possible to have a stronger signup procedure for the wiki? I think something as simple as email confirmation should do the trick. Simply entering a username and password is making it really simple for bots to play havoc.
this was discussed - but the harder you make it to sign up - the less likely you are to get the one-off contributor who is so important for a wiki. I dont think the spam is all that much. And instead of complaining to the admins, one should remove spam as and when one finds it. I would have done it by now, but the wiki is not loading for me.
On 4/14/07, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On 14-Apr-07, at 11:09 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: this was discussed - but the harder you make it to sign up - the less likely you are to get the one-off contributor who is so important for a wiki. I dont think the spam is all that much. And instead of
We usually get one or two incidents a month.
On 4/14/07, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
this was discussed - but the harder you make it to sign up - the less likely you are to get the one-off contributor who is so important for
Email confirmation isn't much now is it? Either ways, whatever suits the list.
a wiki. I dont think the spam is all that much. And instead of complaining to the admins, one should remove spam as and when one
I don't think simply removing the content would do it. The user needs to be kicked off as well. Hence the complain to the admins.
Sometime Today, Siddhesh Poyarekar assembled some asciibets to say:
I don't think simply removing the content would do it. The user needs to be kicked off as well. Hence the complain to the admins.
Simple solution is to make everyone who has contributed to the wiki more than once, and proven himself to be a genuine, non-spamming, human user an admin.
--- Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime Today, Siddhesh Poyarekar assembled some asciibets to say:
I don't think simply removing the content would do
it. The user needs
to be kicked off as well. Hence the complain to
the admins.
Simple solution is to make everyone who has contributed to the wiki more than once, and proven himself to be a genuine, non-spamming, human user an admin.
The most confusing part of these recent spams were that the "recent changes" page didn't list what these bots did. The page that was affected by spam, was notified to the sysops. The wiki isn't accessible at the time of writing this.
There's a link to GLUG-BOM:Administrators on the wiki that lists the email id of admins, _incase_ a problem is not being solved / there are specific restrictions that one thinks is not available as a normal user. Please send emails as notified on the page.
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Sometime on Apr 14, Roshan assembled some asciibets to say:
notified to the sysops. The wiki isn't accessible at the time of writing this.
I think it would be useful if someone posted times when they find the wiki accessible so that others who want to edit can try their hand at that point in time.
--- Philip Tellis wrote:
I think it would be useful if someone posted times when they find the wiki accessible so that others who want to edit can try their hand at that point in time.
Sunday, April 15 2007 11:57 a. m. IST. - accessible
However, I would like to point out, that wiki accessibility currently, is weird.
When I access a wiki page, click on edit, everything works fine, I can edit. When I click the Save Page button, the connection times out! In short, the accessing the wiki even with timestamps, is doubtful.
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On 4/15/07, Roshan d_rosh2001@yahoo.co.in wrote:
However, I would like to point out, that wiki accessibility currently, is weird.
True, and I guess it's also probably ISP dependant to some extent. There are times when I can access the wiki from my MTNL connection but not from Sify. And when I'm on MTNL, one minute the wiki is flying and another minute it refuses to load.
Isn't there an SLA of some sort with the wiki web host? This availability issue seems to have dragged on very long.
On 15-Apr-07, at 11:33 AM, Philip Tellis wrote:
notified to the sysops. The wiki isn't accessible at the time of writing this.
I think it would be useful if someone posted times when they find the wiki accessible so that others who want to edit can try their hand at that point in time.
the wiki server is borked - it needs to be shifted to a decent server
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