Re: [libreoffice-website] Spamming at wiki page

Hi,

2013/7/17 Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>:
> K-J LibreOffice wrote on 2013-07-17 10:48:
>
> > yesterday we had an "interesting" spamming:
> > Someone put in a spamming link at the main page of our wiki. The user
> > has been registrated one week ago.
> > So:
> > 1. The next weeks we should have a look about all changes on every page
> > especially by new users.
> > 2. Such spamming can't fit by any captcha.
> > 3. Thanks to Helen for the fast changing.
>
>
> thank you very much for looking so closely and taking care, that's really
> appreciated!
>
> It seems that with the recent change from QuestyCaptcha to ReCaptcha, things
> got worse, despite several other antispam mechanisms.
See my spam statistic for the last two weeks at
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Volkerme#July_2013 (2 days
back with actualization)

It shows that most of the accounts remain unused (maybe missing
verification) and only very few are getting a valid contrib on the
first day.

> At the moment, I see no other choice than switching back to QuestyCaptcha,
> even if that is not localized. We didn't have many issues the 9 months it
> was active before, so I hope this is acceptable to everyone.
I also would prefer this.

> The alternative I see for the moment is to switch to manual account creation
> completely.
Hm, I am not able to imagine who this should work.


Volker


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