#1121: Spam on GeoNetwork WIKI in trac - please block user
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Reporter: ticheler | Owner: sac@…
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Dear SAC,
It seems that we get spam on our !GeoNetwork wiki pages that run on trac.
Could you please block the user with the name !NewtonKing for us (and/or
contact him if someone knows he is a legitimate user)?
Did you install any anti-spam plugin in the trac WIKI? One of our
community members suggested this:
"There is a spam plugin (http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter) for
trac -
I have never tried it but it seems like it could help in these
situations....."
Thanks in advance for taking this up.
Jeroen
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1121>
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#1121: Spam on GeoNetwork WIKI in trac - please block user
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Reporter: ticheler | Owner: sac@…
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Comment(by warmerdam):
NewtonKing account disabled (password reset).
The SpamFilter looks complicated and error prone. I particularly hate
wiki edits requiring recaptas. I'm not interested in pursuing this avenue
and would be really sad if it was widely in place.
The approach we usually take is to just watch for spam and remove it.
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#1121: Spam on GeoNetwork WIKI in trac - please block user
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Comment(by neteler):
Replying to [comment:1 warmerdam]:
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> The approach we usually take is to just watch for spam and remove it.
Note that this is only related to the trac wiki (not the case for
mediawiki).
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1121#comment:2>
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#1121: Spam on GeoNetwork WIKI in trac - please block user
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Comment(by warmerdam):
Understood. I find myself using our main mediawiki instance substantially
less than I used to due to it's regular math challenges any time I put in
a link.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1121#comment:3>
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#1121: Spam on GeoNetwork WIKI in trac - please block user
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Comment(by EliL):
The GeoMoose mediawiki instance suffered terribly from spam. We added
email account verification and account approval which has ended spam. Now
to get an account you must have a valid email and make some minimal effort
to demonstrate that you are a person with a passing interest in the topic.
This also means that admins must/should act promptly on account requests.
(I don't think that being human, having a passing interest in the topic,
and some effort to demonstrate that is too high of a barrier to entry,
however, I also know that there is a whole wikipedia/mediawiki entry
describing all the things wrong with such an approach.)
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Comment(by warmerdam):
I will note that OSGeo Trac instances use OSGeo accounts which have an
OSGeo unique subscription method. So far spammers have all been manual
labour based and could get through any sort of test with the exception of
a real "knowledge of geo" sort of test.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1121#comment:5>
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Comment(by EliL):
The PDX-OSGeo list requires new members answer "What is your favorite
map?" (Unfortunately, a lot of requests forget to answer the question and
require follow up or we just recognize the email address and approve it,
so that would not necessarily work in wider extents).
I think having a semi-legitimate answer to "What is your favorite map?" is
a fair requirement to getting an OSGeo account. We could also do "Who is
the OSGeo President?", "How many members are on the OSGeo Board?", "Who is
the most recent Sol Katz Recipient?"...
Sorry for hijacking this ticket on semi-tangential topics.
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Comment(by neteler):
Replying to [comment:3 warmerdam]:
> Understood. I find myself using our main mediawiki instance
substantially less than I used to due to it's regular math challenges any
time I put in a link.
The mediawiki was spammed to death otherwise:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2011-September/003280.html (and
related)
We may take the math challenges out as soon as the LDAP integration
is implemented (same applies for the GRASS GIS wiki):
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2012-March/003777.html [[BR]]
"[SAC] Time to move wiki logins to OSGeo Ids?"
but
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2012-March/003778.html
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Comment (by strk):
User 'NewtonKing' is still present in the database, and it is the author
of 6 version fo GeoNetwork trac WikiStart wiki pages which are still
present in the trac database. No other artifacts from that user on any of
the trac dbs.
Let me know if you want me to remove those 6 versions from the database.
Frank: given the password reset was 3 years ago, should it be time to
_drop_ the user completely ?
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1121#comment:8>
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#1121: Spam on GeoNetwork WIKI in trac - please block user
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Reporter: ticheler | Owner: sac@…
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Changes (by strk):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
User was dropped
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