Fedoraproject Wiki spam

Kévin Raymond shaiton at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 13 14:16:07 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> 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

We also have the small calculation to resolve before adding external link.

Should we build a watchlist of "too much active people"? I mean,
people doing several edits in few seconds?
I know that some pages are edited using scripts, so it's not really relevant.


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Kévin Raymond
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