Bugs item #1942204, was opened at 2008-04-14 17:49 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by zmoelnig You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=1942204...
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: pdpedia Group: None
Status: Open
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: IOhannes m zmölnig (zmoelnig)
Date: 2008-06-09 13:40
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while you are right that in theory captchas are no 100% spam-blocker, from my personal experience with them they are rather efficient (i have had a 100% success rate on all the sites i installed captchas at).
to reiterate: looking at the recent edits (last "500" in last "30" days) via http://wiki.puredata.info/en/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit... i right now cannot see an legit edit of the pdpedia project within this time. there is _only_ spam.
i guess this means that spam protection on a social level currently works even less than captchas.
so i re-request to setup a spam protection mechanism. (i guess i do not have the permissions to do so myself)
even if spam-protection is done on a social level it has to be setup in some way. please do so to make pdedia a nice experience.
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Comment By: SourceForge Robot (sf-robot) Date: 2008-06-07 04:20
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This Tracker item was closed automatically by the system. It was previously set to a Pending status, and the original submitter did not respond within 14 days (the time period specified by the administrator of this Tracker).
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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Date: 2008-05-23 12:29
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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 11:13
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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 11:00
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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 19:23
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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 09:15
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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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