User talk:Tux

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Welcome to the Toy Department!16:52, 26 September 2007 (EDT)

Welcome to my talk page. Feel free to leave OESF Wiki-related notes for me here. Just edit the page and add your comments in a new paragraph at the bottom. Please sign and date your post by appending "--~~~~" to the end of your comment. thanks to Meyer for this useful heading for my Talk page.

Tux 19:46, 26 September 2007 (EDT)

The spam in the wiki, which I have been browsing through lately, is so annoying that I have decided to use some of my time to revert the affected articles that I come across.

[ptoki] I did this as well in June. Its hopeless. There are a couple of options: Make editing harder (any kind of captcha while logging in) - easy to override. Lock and forbid editing after cleaning up - not nice. Alert admin on oesf forums. (I will do this). Make a mirror of this knowledge and abandon this junk.... :(

(Answered your note on my own talk page. --Meyer 21:53, 25 Sep 2007 (EDT))

posted the following at Meyer's talk page:

What I do to kill spambots!

At the moment I'm going through the Recent Changes page as I used to. This time I'm looking for Red user names and looking at the page history and the version attached to the name.

If it is the spambot stuff I select: Block, other, 1 year ban, other and put spambot in the other box. Then select block.

Obviously when I find a spammed page I can take a look at the RED user revisions and block as required.

I'm hoping this new wiki software can really block the same IP. (It seems to!) Tux 19:46, 26 September 2007 (EDT)

OESF wiki project noticeboard

I've created a page for posting notices of problems and discussing administrative issues in general: OESF:Administrators' noticeboard, alias OESF:AN. Please watch it. -- Meyer 23:05, 26 September 2007 (EDT)

I'm going through allpages looking for dubious titles. If there is no content I start the deletion process. If there is a message content which resembles the classic wiki spam method I delete the page. I may find some links between these pages, which prevent deleting them all. I'll sort that out later. Tux 12:25, 28 September 2007 (EDT)