[ros-users] spam in the wiki (tutorial)

[Isaac I.Y. Saito]

All,

spammers are back.
I've started manually reverting/deleting some as Tully mentioned in
the referenced email, but this time the spam entries are too many. If
you see this please consider joining the force.

**How to revert/delete** Open http://wiki.ros.org/RecentChanges, find
suspicious change, click "i" icon of the entry and revert.
Looks like almost all entries are creating new pages. In that case you
can just delete from pulldown menu in each page.

Also I suggest following discussion should happen on maybe this ticket
(to keep this mailinglist sane).
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki/issues/139

Isaac

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Tully Foote via ros-users
<ros-users at lists.ros.org> wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
>
> Thanks for catching it and cleaning it up again.
>
> There are several ways to fight spam in Moin Moin, see
> https://moinmo.in/AntiSpamFeatures Blocking an account is not very useful
> when they are free to create a new one. If anything it's easier to track
> their edits if they use the same account.
>
> As this appears to be a person actually logging in and being malicious there
> is very little we can do besides clean up quickly so that they don't get the
> benefit of traffic to their site. And make it not worth their effort.
>
> Usually some of us will check the RecentChanges page
> (http://wiki.ros.org/RecentChanges) and spam is relatively easy to pick out
> from that. If it becomes more of a problem we can consider more options.
>
> Tully
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:55 AM, fab <fabio at cancellino.org> wrote:
>>
>> Il 2015-04-06 14:18 Tully Foote ha scritto:
>>
>>> The most important thing is that if the
>>> spam is cleaned up quickly, the spammers don't get rewarded for their
>>> efforts and they don't keep trying.
>>
>>
>> The spammer is back, how can we block his account?
>> The account is "familymedicalmobility".
>>
>> Fabio
>>
>> --
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