On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
Hi all,
I’d like to draw your attention to the wiki. The spammers appear to know the solution to the current entry barrier “What is usually the last command in a ConTeXt source file (without the backslash)?”, and the number of fake accounts is growing fast:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:Log/newusers
They don’t, however, seem to vandalize yet, so I guess the postal code of Hasselt is unbreakable with today’s technology ;-) Nevertheless the account spam is messing up the recent changes feed:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss
Even if it’s not urgent, may I suggest we collect possible replacements for the current question? I can’t image the damage those accounts would do once they figure out how to post links.
It would probably be best to: 1.) Remove all those account (attention: some users are actually legitimate and contributed valid content). 2.) Find out if there is any problematic IP and block those IPs. 3.) Install something like http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount and/or maybe use both captcha and some context-specific question (honestly: if users don't know how to answer some slightly more tricky question, they shouldn't be able to get the account). We could use questions like "Last name of president of ConTeXt User Group." I haven't been on wiki for a while and received a warning about the issue yesterday. Mojca