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

Mon Jan 23 14:39:43 UTC 2012

Thanks! I looked everywhere for that...

Dave

On 23 January 2012 13:57, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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
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> 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
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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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