Wiki spam

[rjaguar3]

There's a lot of spam on the wiki's Recent Changes feed. I've already blanked one spam page at http://wiki.wesnoth.org/User:Joyce7344, but I don't know what to do about the others.

[ancestral]

Maybe the wiki software is due for an update? Newer versions are usually better security-wise, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they contained better ways to thwart spam (captchas?)

[cKomuHKa]

Another spam link here: http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Create/ukr

Spoiler:

[Crendgrim]

Thanks for noticing that one, cKomuHKa! It seems to have come from the English page when the translation was created (copy-pasted and partially changed), from where it already has been removed. On this version, however, the link stayed.

Regarding the other spam pages, it is hard to deal with them. There is a lot.

[ancestral]

The following pages ought to be deleted, either as they are empty, spam, are unrelated to Wesnoth, or are entirely unreadable:

http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Amazing_gossips ... er_read_it
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Arbetssätt
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Bad_weather_76
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/ElencoTraduzioniDraghi
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Http://www.exam ... cool_coder (not sure the true link to this one)
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/IPhones_are_lam ... d_loser_20
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Nobody_test_me_joor_94
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Ordförklaringar
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Origenstextsillengua
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/PAYDAY_TOMORROW_38
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Scales_still_got_the_46
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Well_on_that_co ... t_twice_20
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/When_do_the_fir ... ostbite_64
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Why_doesn_t_any ... HGH_jaw_41
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Why_don_t_all_f ... _scales_93
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/WOW_you_have_cr ... oeeee_3_72

[zookeeper]

Deleted. Except for the ones with presumably broken links:

http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Arbetssätt
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Http://www.exam ... cool_coder (not sure the true link to this one)
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Ordförklaringar

[rjaguar3]

There is more spam clogging up the RC feed. Unfortunately, I'm not able to delete it.

I can try putting together a script to parse the links to create one list of pages that an administrator can delete.

[Iris]

I have just disabled registration of new users in the wiki on zookeeper’s request.

Hopefully someone (most certainly not me) will sort this out.

[GunChleoc]

a lot of the spam pages can be accessed from http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Special:RecentChanges

[ancestral]

+1,000,000 pts to whoever upgrades the wiki software.

[Jamie]

I have just disabled registration of new users in the wiki on zookeeper’s request.

Did you also disable password reset? I am unable to log on now (forgot my password) and now—when I'm learning and using the reference heavily—is the best time to make improvements, while I still remember what I found confusing. I'm much less likely to come back and make changes later, after I have "mastered" the code.

[Iris]

I don’t know about password resets — I only know I toggled the option to enable registration of new accounts from ‘true’ to ‘false’.

... and I just did it the other way around too, because we need GSoC applicants to be able to register wiki accounts.

[Jamie]

Cool, thanks!

[rjaguar3]

If I had a way to delete pages, I would be willing to help.

[JaMiT]

I pushed a bunch of spam pages into [wiki]category:candidates for speedy deletion[/wiki], should someone get the urge to delete a bunch of pages.

I left the content in some pages because otherwise it might not be so obvious to the deleter that they are spam, but when the article title made that clear, I took out the contents (to remove the SEO the spammer seems to be after).