[gambit-list] Wiki vandalism
Harold Ancell
hga at ancell-ent.com
Sat Oct 13 11:50:35 EDT 2007
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:Recentchanges
or http://tinyurl.com/2xb7zb
A standard MediaWiki feature, you can navigate to it from the main
page Special Pages link generally at the lower left.
- Harold
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