At 10:07 AM 10/13/2007, Stephane Le Cornec wrote:
At 10:40 -0400 2007/10/13, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Marc Feeley wrote:
Anyone have a suggestion on how to deal with this?
Require a login, confirmed by email, to edit content?
And/or changes from unregistered users have to be confirmed by a user.
Users have to be authorized by an administrator; Scheme Punks was being hit by people/robots who created accounts (both are standard MediaWikis, so there are standard attacks to match).
There are some existing sophisticated solutions out there, I can check the Scheme Punks' mailing lists.
Or blacklist IP addresse blocks,
Wack-a-mole, unless you want to start by blacklisting all of East Asia (maybe minus Japan (lots of unprotected systems))....
or even whitelist blocks with registered users.
Is there a page to see recent activity?
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Recentchang...
A standard MediaWiki feature, you can navigate to it from the main page Special Pages link generally at the lower left.
- Harold