Peak Oil News

 
  Login or Register
 
Menu
 News
 Search
 Topics
 Stories Archive
 Submit News
 Discussions
 Code of Conduct
 Forums
 Forums Search
 Last 24 Hours
 PO 24hrs
 Peak Blog
 Resources
 About Us
 Downloads
 Web Links
 PeakWiki
 PeakPortal
 Focus Search
 Peak TV
 Peak Oil Boston
 Members
 Your Account
 Members List
 Ignore List
 JOIN!
 Private Messages
 
Light Sweet Crude Oil
 
google
 
PeakSpeak
NICKNAME

Download TeamSpeak
What is PeakSpeak?
Peak Oil on IRC
 
Member Quotes
NYMEX Crude Oil (Light) ........................121.20 5.64 NYMEX NYH RBOB Gasoline (Globex) ...... 3.0421 .1318

Don’t worry, just a little bump - $70 is just around the corner. Short traders just keep making those margin calls, mortgage the house if you have to. Fortunes await you! PO is for pansies and doomers. At $70 short some more ..... it is going back to $22 .... the world is awash with oil ........ reality has nothing to do with it, its all in those charts!!!!!!!!!!

SELL SELL SELL

shortonoil

Suggest Quote
 
Photo Album
Submit Photo
Peakoil.com is You!


member photos
 
ICM
Cisco & Net App Training
 
Peak Oil News: Forums

Peakoil.com :: View topic - Reminder: wiki spam problem
 Forum FAQForum FAQ   SearchSearch   UsergroupsUsergroups   ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

Reminder: wiki spam problem

 
Post new topic   Reply to topic   Printer-friendly version    Peakoil.com Forum Index -> Technical Support
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
steam_cannon
Expert
Expert


Joined: Dec 28, 2006
Posts: 2422
Location: MA
PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reminder: wiki spam problem Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
Just a reminder about peak wiki, adding content is more fun then removing spam.





A few options to consider...
Quote:
ConfirmEdit

Install the ConfirmEdit extension. ConfirmEdit uses captchas (simple
tests to "prove" an editor is human before registering an account or
allowing certain types of edits) to prevent many spam robots from
inserting spam into a wiki.

You can use "fancy" image captchas with squiggly letters, the kind
everyone is used to seeing these days, or you can opt to use
simple math problems. The image-based captchas present problems
for blind people, but it's probably easier to write a spam robot to
detect and do math problems, so there's a tradeoff. I use the math
problems on UMassWiki for maximum accessibility. They're very
simple addition and subtraction only.

http://wiki.evernex.com/index.php?title=Blocking_Spam_in_Mediawiki

_____________________________________________________

Extension:ConfirmEdit
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

_____________________________________________________

Stemming the menace of wiki spamming
http://www.linux.com/feature/45848
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Yahoo Messenger
RedStateGreen
Light Sweet Crude
Light Sweet Crude


Joined: Sep 16, 2007
Posts: 1095
Location: Oklahoma City, USA
PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:01 am    Post subject: Re: Reminder: wiki spam problem Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
I'm finding several pages where it doesn't let you edit. It may be that the page is too big or something, that's the error I get. I tried reverting to a clean page, but it won't allow that either. Looking at the history it's like I wasn't even there.

I'm not sure if it's an error in the code or something wrong with my log-in. Or something one of the spammers did.
_________________
What, so I'm in no end game
Move my piece right off the board
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail
steam_cannon
Expert
Expert


Joined: Dec 28, 2006
Posts: 2422
Location: MA
PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:49 am    Post subject: Re: Reminder: wiki spam problem Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote
RedStateGreen wrote:
I'm finding several pages where it doesn't let you edit.
It may be that the page is too big or something...
The problem is probably the page is too big. When I run into that
problem I close all other tabs, all other open browsers and open just that
page. That works for me, I'm using Firefox.

But it's too bad it's so easy for spammers to get in, I think someday
that should be fixed... Rolling Eyes
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Yahoo Messenger
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic   Printer-friendly version    Peakoil.com Forum Index -> Technical Support All times are GMT - 6 Hours
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

Atom News FeedRSS 1.0 News FeedRSS 2.0 News FeedRSS Forums Feed