[Olpc-sysadmin] [laptop.org #27856] Wiki spam: temporarily add captchas for IP-user edits

Mel Chua mel at melchua.com
Wed Dec 17 22:11:06 EST 2008


Thanks, Henry! Copying the VIG and wiki-gang on this so they know what 
happened as a result (removing sysadmin@ so the ticket won't reopen). 
Good to hear this one is (hopefully) over.

--Mel

sysadmin at laptop.org wrote:
> Sj installed three extensions/features last night (2008-12-17)
> 
> ConfirmEdit.php
> wgSpamBlacklist
> CommentSpammer.php
> 
> The first will make it harder for anons to insert URL's
> The second allows you to explicitly block edits that include a
> particular given string
> The third uses an active honeypot site to track IP's that seem to be
> comment spamming.
> 
> The only good way to block page blanking is to run a bot, per SJ.
> 
> He says ask Dogi what he found out about anti-vandalism bots.
> 
> --HH.


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