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

Mon Jan 23 13:57:55 UTC 2012

That's odd. It appears for me. It's part of a drop down menu that appears
when you press the triangle to the left of the search bar.

S

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:53 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > S
> >
> >
> > 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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> >
> >
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Sam Leon
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Skype: samedleon
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