wiki spam

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 09:59 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> Seems our wiki has been discovered by wiki spammers.
> 
> Disabling a spammers user id requires access to the filesystem - its a
> privileged operation, so the easiest route is to contact one of the
> Canonical staff on #bzr to escalate this to the sysadmins. I'll
> certainly be forwarding usernames I note to be spamming to the
> sysadmins.
> 
> However, this doesn't stop automatically created users, and the moin
> wiki wire protocol is probably known by wiki spammers at this point.
> 
> Some options I'm aware of -
>  - there is a proof-of-concept captcha for moin that I found via google
>  - we could ask for the bazaar-vcs.org wiki to have its user-management 
>    migrated to launchpad, like wiki.ubuntu.com is. This would force user
>    creation to go through the email handshake to make an account, which
>    is unlikely to be automated at this point

James Troup just reminded me that we also could enable moins
'badcontent' system which may help.

-Rob
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