[Xastir-dev] Wiki problems

[KA7O]

One thing that could help might be the return of the "Recent Changes" 
link in the navigation box on the left. The function is still there, 
just the link has been removed. Click the following to see what I'm 
talking about:

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

[note: The RecentChanges link can also be accessed from the 'Special 
Pages' link in the Tool Box]

For the two Wikis I host and so far [::knock on wood::] have kept clean, 
that is one of *the most* useful tools I use.

Checking things every couple of days or so, it's trivial to click that 
one link and get a list of all edits made in the past few days. From 
there, it's very easy to see what is legitimate and what's not.

I also have ReCAPTCHA enabled for ANY edit by anyone that includes an 
off site URL. And requiring verified email addresses for anyone to be 
granted edit privileges has all but eliminated SPAM from the club and 
Wyoming Section wikis.

Now, neither of my sites have near the draw or traffic - but for now, 
it's working here.

73

On 08/11/2010 01:59 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> Gang:
>
> A long time ago the wiki had some protections against random spam.  These
> were removed when the wiki was upgraded.  The random spam has been creeping
> back.
>
> We need *some* kind of protection re-instated, even if it's the utterly
> trivial stuff that Scott Miller has on info.aprs.net (a trivial CAPTCHA).
> That site still does get *some* spam, but not much.  Better yet, we should
> have something that limits user creation --- preferrably with sysop
> intervention required before page creation/edits are allowed.
>
> What we're seeing on www.xastir.org is lots of new user creation that does
> not appear to be by xastir users, and the occasional insertion of random
> gibberish into pages by those users.  Today I just cleared out "EmmaWatson"'s
> user page, which was filled with Lorem Ipsum junk and a JPG image of a bunch
> of cherries.
>
> Without some protection, or without constant oversight, the wiki will become
> less useful as time goes on.
>