[maemo-community] Spam comments on the wiki

[From: robert bauer]

Hi Andre,

When the forum started getting inundated with spam, we addressed it by
adding more moderators.  Maybe we can do that with the wiki as well.

Rob

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Andre Klapper <andre_klapper at gmx.net>wrote:

> Looking at
>
> http://wiki.maemo.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=500&days=30
> you can see that spam comments are added rather often nowadays, both by
> registered accounts but mostly by anonymous edits.
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Special:Ipblocklist lists blocked accounts and
> IPs.
>
> I wonder if those changes happen automatically (not really sure) and if
> some better protection should be introduced (and if it would help), such
> as CAPTCHAs. This has been discussed before, see
> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3860 for some context.
> It's probably not the biggest issue, but annoying for those that spend
> time trying to keep the wiki clean of vandalism.
>
> andre
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