Re: Summary from the debian www/wiki BoF at DC14
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 04:05:04PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:40 AM, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
>
>> - For every new wiki account, mail a copy of the very first page edit (diff)
>> to a small number of people. Should be very easy to spot spam, and only then
>> some action needs to be taken.
>
>We already have some people following RecentChanges and that seems to work fine.
>
>https://wiki.debian.org/RecentChanges
I also opened a wishlist against moin myself a while to get this kind
of feature: #705114. While it's all well and good to pick up spam
after the fact, I'd love to be able to do moderation of new accounts
instead. Patches welcome!
>> - Have an easy way to mass-revert all edits by a given user account, to be
>> used in the above case.
>
>The wiki engine supports this already for admin users. It isn't
>actually that useful because most spammers that reach the wiki these
>days are one-shot, spammers just create new accounts for each edit.
... for exactly this reason.
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