Fwd: Fwd: WikiGuide destroed by spammers

[Pasi Lallinaho]

The nature of a wiki is that everybody with an account is able to edit
and create pages. Furthermore, this is the community wiki with no
official content whatsoever so it doesn't have a huge impact on anyone
if there are spammy pages; I don't think they are even linked to anywhere.

Setting up a system that created a bigger threshold to make any changes
to the wiki would likely turn off many people who are working on the
wiki now. Besides, that would mean there would be more work to moderate
the wiki. Who would sign up for that task? Judging by the interest for
this wiki currently, I would so no one would.

Cheers,
Pasi

On 02/01/16 20:46, Conno Boel wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> Depending on the speed of the updates... Is there any chance of having
> a review system?
> Maybe ICm a trustee-system?
> Like, if someone is known to add useful stuff, they don't need to be
> reviewed, but say the first 5 additions of an account get put on hold,
> intil a trustee or smth has reviewed them?
>
> I dunno, I tend to see things sunny side up, but I guess this would
> have been done before if it was that easy...
>
> Greetings,
> Cornelis
>
> Op 2-1-2016 om 19:34 schreef Elizabeth K. Joseph:
>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Alessandro Viprati
>> <vipri.alessandro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2016-01-02 16:27 GMT+01:00 Ian Nicholson <ian at binaryash.net>:
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>>>> For what it's worth, passing your favorite search engine the string
>>>> "site:help.ubuntu.com pogo" returns quite a few spam pages.  I'd
>>>> delete them myself but I apparently don't have the permissions to do
>>>> so.  These pages seem to have all been created in the last two or
>>>> three days.
>>>
>>> It seems that the situation is more complex than what previously
>>> considered:
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/%20%20%20+1-800-311-5934%20%20%20POGOtech%20Support%20Phone%20Number%20POGOtech%20support%20number#6943230803257378742
>>>
>>>
>>> Due to the moinmoin wiki configuration, help.ubuntu.com/community pages
>>> cannot be delete by normal users (=normal accounts), so we need
>>> admins to
>>> delete all these pages.
>> There are thousands of pages and it looks like this started on
>> December 23rd. I'm not going to spend my whole day deleting pages when
>> the spam accounts keep being created. Endless, time-wasting war with
>> bots.
>>
>> I've submitted a ticket with Canonical IS (#27950) to see what they
>> can do on the administrative side to shut this down.
>>
>
>


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