Fedoraproject Wiki spam

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Fri Apr 13 14:05:19 UTC 2012


On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:56:29 +0800
Christopher Meng <cickumqt at gmail.com> wrote:

> How caould fp prevent spamming???

Well, we already require an active fas account, which means you have to
pass a captcha and have a valid email address. 

I'm not sure what more we could do without burdening legit edits. 

It is reasonably easy to rollback spam and disable people... 

kevin
--
> 
> On Thursday, April 12, 2012, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:50:24 +0200
> > Antonio Trande <anto.trande at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > This afternoon i notice a lot of changes in FedoraProject Wiki
> > > like that
> > >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Ambassadors&diff=0&oldid=283985
> > .
> > > Can you tell me if are usual or is there something (or someone)
> > > wrong ? :)
> >
> > It's not very usual, but there was a spammer.
> >
> > Their account was locked and all their commits were rolled back, so
> > there shouldn't be any further issues.
> >
> > kevin
> >
> 
> 

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