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Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: Meyer on October 20, 2007, 03:04:45 pm

I am in the process of implementing the antispam enhancements discussed in the wiki article https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=OESF:A...#The_Robot_Wars (https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=OESF:Administrators%27_noticeboard#The_Robot_Wars). Work details and progress posted on https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=OESF:A...ation_work_list (https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=OESF:Antispam_configuration_work_list). I apologize in advance for any distruptions that might occur. Please contact me here with any problems you have.

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: koan on October 21, 2007, 12:33:01 am

Thanks!

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: Meyer on October 24, 2007, 09:08:12 am

The captcha extension is now in operation. You will need to answer a simple math problem to edit or create pages or to register a new wiki user.

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: tux on October 24, 2007, 02:24:11 pm

Quote from: Meyer

The captcha extension is now in operation. You will need to answer a simple math problem to edit or create pages or to register a new wiki user.

 I think David deserves congratulations on putting these first steps in place to improving the spambot defenses!  

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: dz on October 24, 2007, 04:28:18 pm

Quote from: tux

Quote from: Meyer

The captcha extension is now in operation. You will need to answer a simple math problem to edit or create pages or to register a new wiki user.

 I think David deserves congratulations on putting these first steps in place to improving the spambot defenses!  

Thanks to the both of you for taking this initiative.  Sorry I couldn't help you, but it seems you have everything under control so it's all good

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: tux on October 26, 2007, 09:28:00 am

 Just an update: extensions went in on Wednesday 24th October. Up to the minute, 2:30 pm Friday 26th BST, not one item of spam has come across the radar! Long may it continue!  

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: dz on October 26, 2007, 03:52:26 pm

Quote from: tux

Just an update: extensions went in on Wednesday 24th October. Up to the minute, 2:30 pm Friday 26th BST, not one item of spam has come across the radar! Long may it continue!  

Ya, I haven't seen any spam in the forum either.  Let's keep our fingers crossed!

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: Meyer on October 27, 2007, 02:33:54 pm

Wiki may be intermittently unavailable as I trace problem with Bad Behavior extension.

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: Meyer on October 27, 2007, 03:31:25 pm

Bad Behavior extension and the Bad Behavior 2 Extended report special page are installed and seem to be working.

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: Meyer on October 28, 2007, 10:23:23 pm

It seems the anti-spam measures have left the wiki eerily quiet. The admin-only report generate by Bad Behavior shows a large number of wiki requests being rejected. Well and good if that's all spam.

However, if you get a legitimate request blocked, please report it here and we will try to tune.

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: koan on October 29, 2007, 07:03:43 am

Hi Meyer,

Cracking work, well done.

Some of us are still editing pages...

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: Meyer on October 29, 2007, 02:18:13 pm

SpamBlacklist wiki extension has been installed and appears to be functioning. This extension checks URIs included in edits and blocks the edit if any URI match an entry in a list of forbidden words.

This extension is the last of the planned anti-spam measures. If no problems crop up, this will be the last functional change to the wiki until further notice.

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: tux on November 19, 2007, 06:02:24 pm

 I hope that fate is not tempted by this post!

The anti-spam measures went into operation on October the 24th, if my memory serves me correctly. Today is the 19th of November. There hasn't been a successful spam attack at the Wiki in that time. I suppose that we are still vulnerable to a 'live' spammer but that should be easy to spot, delete and block.  

Congratulations again Meyer: let's hope that you can return to productive work on the Wiki and to the tinkering with your 860s!

Title: Antispam Enhancements
Post by: Meyer on November 20, 2007, 10:53:02 am

I can't take any credit, but am glad the wiki extensions are working as advertised. It's good to see nothing but improvements on the Recent Changes page.