Bugs item #1942204, was opened at 2008-04-14 11:49 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by eighthave You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=1942204...
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Status: Pending
Resolution: None Priority: 7 Private: No Submitted By: oli44 (oli44) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: pdpedia Captcha
Initial Comment: Feature request:
is it possible to install a captcha system to avoid pdpedia being spammed so outrageously ?
maybe useful link : http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Captcha
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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Date: 2008-05-23 06:29
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If you think captchas will stop spam, it is unfortunately not true. Here's one of the many pages about breaking captchas:
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mori/research/gimpy/
I think we should still follow wikipedia's example and delete spam as it comes. It's really not hard to do. We should just have more people setup and willing to do it. I am setting this bug report to "Pending", so unless someone wants to setup captchas, it'll be closed within two weeks.
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2008-05-23 05:13
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hmm, the last 10days on pdpedia shows 3 different types of activity: - 3 active contributions - 3 spam removals - 48 spams
luckily only "active (development status)â" and "Talk:Main Pageâ" were hit.
to whom should pdpedia related bugs be assigned?
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Comment By: IOhannes m zmölnig (zmoelnig) Date: 2008-04-16 05:00
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i checked the "recent changes" log now, and i see that the spam is back again :(
to whom should pdpedia related bugs be assigned?
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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Date: 2008-04-15 13:23
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Any admin can easily delete those junk posts with the 'delete' tab and also protect problem pages. A captcha might help, I haven't seen one for mediawiki before.
Check the "recent changes" log now, and you'll see the spam is gone. :)
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Comment By: IOhannes m zmölnig (zmoelnig) Date: 2008-04-15 03:15
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i agree that pdpedia has lost lots of it's initial charme just because of this: according to the "recent changes" page, of the last 376 changes 361 were garbage.
luckily most of these garbage changes are targeted on few pages (Template:vanilla has 257 changes; Template:jmmmp has 99 changes)
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