[okfn-help] Wiki Spam (?) User Accounts

Mon Jan 23 13:53:07 UTC 2012

Regarding doing similar on wiki.ckan.org, I have the highest
permissions (beaurocrat), but I can't seem to find the 'delete page'
button anywhere. What am I doing wrong?

Dave

On 23 January 2012 12:56, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
> Yes RSS feed is a much better idea. New pages are the key, I'll ignore new
> account that look like spam but that don't post anything. I'm now
> monitoring, hopefully we'll stamp out this Wiki spam now.
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> S
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> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 19 January 2012 14:25, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > I am now getting notifications from our Wiki about new user accounts in
>> > an
>> > attempt to monitor spam (thanks Nils).
>> >
>> > The problem is that accounts that look like spam accounts are being set
>> > up,
>> > but not contributing anything.
>> >
>> > As it's hard to be sure from a user name alone what is a spam account,
>> > how
>> > should I deal with these accounts? Presumably, everyone agrees it is
>> > unadvisable to block an account that has made no spam edits no matter
>> > how
>> > ridiculous the user name might look?
>>
>> Yes, more useful is probably to monitor the RSS feed of pages created.
>> The thing here is the spamming is being done by hand so if we make it
>> hard enough (i.e. stomp on spam quickly enough) it will go away ...
>>
>> Rufus
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