Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Wiki spam

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:58:03 +1000
schreef Andrew R. <address@hidden>:

> There has been another spam "attack" on the wiki today and yesterday.
> 
> Perhaps the Q&A CAPTCHA needs to be changed (even if it only stops it
> temporarily).

Thanks for the heads up. I changed the captcha.

> Also, the spam on this page cannot be reverted because the word
> "backlinks" is blacklisted:
> http://www.gnewsense.org/Projects/WikiMigrationScript

Unblacklisted and reverted.

> Do any other members have suggestions for ways we can stop the spam
> attacks?

The only thing I can think of right now is some kind of authorization
for new accounts. I didn't check yet what the options are in MoinMoin.
Probably needs someone to babysit account requests. That cure might be
worse than the disease.

> Also, I think the wiki has fail2ban on it but I heard it wasn't
> working.

I'll have to check that again. I'm sure it has worked in the past,
because I hit the limit myself a few times when doing mass spam removal.