Ari wrote:
> Undid the vandalization. Somebody please kick out Ramson567.
Brian:
done.
On that page there was also some more vandalism by 'GenGari' and 'Fabiano',
could you give them the same treatment?
(does that automatically remove other spam they have spewn, or do those
edits have to be unwound manually?)
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Fabiano
thanks,
Hamish
Ari wrote:
> > Undid the vandalization. Somebody please kick out Ramson567.Brian:
> done.
also, could you double check & then ban these spam accounts:
Apollosan
DanielBurrowes
Imeugene72
Tudor2
Eumila
Techrahul
Margaret88
Grantsmith6
Okawards
I cleaned up their junk at wiki.osgeo.org except for these pages:
(ran out of energy)
Special:Contributions/Apollosan
India
sigh,
Hamish
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ari wrote:
> > Undid the vandalization. Somebody please kick out Ramson567.Brian:
> done.also, could you double check & then ban these spam accounts:
Apollosan
DanielBurrowes
Imeugene72
Tudor2
Eumila
Techrahul
Margaret88
Grantsmith6
OkawardsI cleaned up their junk at wiki.osgeo.org except for these pages:
(ran out of energy)
Many more are easily identifyable at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special%3AActiveUsers&limit=500&username=&hidesysops=1
Once the connection to LDAP will be possible, a major
"wiki washing" of accounts will be needed.
Markus
On 05/10/2012 10:58 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
Many more are easily identifyable at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special%3AActiveUsers&limit=500&username=&hidesysops=1 Once the connection to LDAP will be possible, a major "wiki washing" of accounts will be needed. Markus
Is something like this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount now in place?
Ari
Markus wrote:
Many more are easily identifyable at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special%3AActiveUsers&limit=500&username=&hidesysops=1
3 or the first 5 on the list of active users were spammers with uncleaned
edits. sigh.
Once the connection to LDAP will be possible, a major
"wiki washing" of accounts will be needed.
I reluctantly agree.
(what's the strategy after that? do they then try to register spam
accounts into osgeo IDs?)
:-/
Hamish
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:
...
(what's the strategy after that? do they then try to register spam
accounts into osgeo IDs?)
I don't think so, this are common Mediawiki bots...
ciao
Markus
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 05:11:53AM -0700, Hamish wrote:
(what's the strategy after that? do they then try to register spam
accounts into osgeo IDs?)
I guess so, because (at least last time I checked) the OSGeo LDAP
account creation doesn't require any identification or confirmation
either 
Cheers,
Martin.
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Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@mgras.net> wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 05:11:53AM -0700, Hamish wrote:
(what's the strategy after that? do they then try to register spam
accounts into osgeo IDs?)I guess so, because (at least last time I checked) the OSGeo LDAP
account creation doesn't require any identification or confirmation
either
Markus / Martin / Hamish,
If need be we will add confirmation for LDAP signups, but it is hard
to imagine it being worth anyones while to configure a bot for our
idiosyncratic process. If they are willing to do it manually they can
circumnavigate anything we do.
Best regards,
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