Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Spam on gnewsense wiki

[Sam Geeraerts]

r. siddharth wrote:
> On Monday 16 January 2012 10:18 PM, Ben Wong wrote:
> We desperately are in need of developers. If you have the mind 
> to join us in getting the next release out to the public, we did be 
> happy to have you.

FYI, current focus of development is the tentatively named Debderiver 
[1]. Patches and comments welcome.

> >    http://www.gnewsense.org/RecentChanges
> >
> > I was surprised to find that there is a bunch of spam that has been
> > added.  The wiki says that the pages are "immutable", which makes me
> > wonder if they were posted using a security hole in the gnewsense wiki
> > (Moin Moin).  Perhaps the wiki software needs to be updated?

You should be able to edit most pages when you're logged in.

> > If possible, please enable TEXTCHA to prevent these spams:
> >
> >    http://moinmo.in/HelpOnSpam

The textcha feature is enabled for some months now. I've only put in 
easy problems so far because I want our wiki editing to be very 
accessible, e.g. not just for English speakers. We've also enabled 
"BadContent" filtering a few days ago, which seems to have helped a bit, 
but some spam is still getting through. I'd appreciate any other tips to 
lower our spam count.

[1] http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/debderiver/files