Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: wiki spam

On 11/06/2013 17:35, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> so I spent the afternoon doing further research. Basically, we're up to
> date with our plugins and the way we fight spam.

Great!
> Besides locking down the full wiki (i.e. manual account approval), there
> are some more options:
>
> (1) Switching to OpenID
>
> New wiki users would be forced to use an OpenID provider, like Yahoo or
> Google, to connect to the wiki. We use this at AskBot (for different
> reasons), but every once in a while we receive complaints that people
> cannot just create a local account. I think this is a valid concern,
> having to use an account at some other site first doesn't sound overly
> inviting. Plus we then would end up with a mixture of local accounts and
> OpenID-based ones, as existing wiki users would not be affected.

Well, I not for that one (I don't like to be forced to something ;-)
> (2) Restricting external URLs to approved users
>
> As most of the spam we see is targetted at adding links to external
> sites, we could limit external links to a group of users, e.g. the ones
> who have been autoconfirmed (i.e. active for a certain amount of days
> and having made several edits already). I've found one extension to do
> so on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NotEvil
>
> I am not sure how much enforcing #2 would limit legitimate users.
> Basically, only new users would be affected (the spam seems to happen as
> "fire and forget"), and it would take only a certain amount of days and
> edits to be autoconfirmed.

+1 for this one from my side. I don't think it will touch new 'real'
contributors so much. Most of the time they come to add or translate
content, not to put a link to another place.

Kind regards
Sophie

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