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Would it perhaps be an idea to disable account creation, and in stead invite new contributors to drop us a line, and tell us a bit about their interests / background in programming (without demanding sensitive information like real name and such)? [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] ([[User talk:Fwend|talk]]) 15:57, 29 May 2013 (UTC) |
Would it perhaps be an idea to disable account creation, and in stead invite new contributors to drop us a line, and tell us a bit about their interests / background in programming (without demanding sensitive information like real name and such)? [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] ([[User talk:Fwend|talk]]) 15:57, 29 May 2013 (UTC) |
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: nofollow has been added. If someone with MediaWiki coding chops could write up an extension to tie MW's blocking logic with Cloudflare's API, that would be most excellent. I could do it...if I had the time. I very much don't right now. The key thing needed is described in section 4.7 of CF's [https://www.cloudflare.com/docs/client-api.html API docs]. IPs should be able to be blocked when IP blocks are added to the site, and should be removed from CF when removed/expired from the site. (There's also some excellent possibilities for proper cache purging logic, but that's another issue...) --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] ([[User talk:Short Circuit|talk]]) 03:14, 2 June 2013 (UTC) |
: nofollow has been added. If someone with MediaWiki coding chops could write up an extension to tie MW's blocking logic with Cloudflare's API, that would be most excellent. I could do it...if I had the time. I very much don't right now. The key thing needed is described in section 4.7 of CF's [https://www.cloudflare.com/docs/client-api.html API docs]. IPs should be able to be blocked when IP blocks are added to the site, and should be removed from CF when removed/expired from the site. (There's also some excellent possibilities for proper cache purging logic, but that's another issue...) --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] ([[User talk:Short Circuit|talk]]) 03:14, 2 June 2013 (UTC) |
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:: We're getting absolutely inundated with spammers here. Maybe a hundred new account registrations a day. What's worse, the block-by-IP appears to be catching about half the spam attempts. Is it possible to turn off registration without manual approval? Or failing that turn it off entirely? |
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::FWIW, there appears to be two spammers/spamming teams; one puts fairly small amounts of material in their User page (one or two links), and the other (''much'' more prolific) does two edits to their UserTalk page to put in a large slab of text with variable links. I'm pretty sure that both have people involved at some point; it's not just a bot. |
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:: But whatever you do, please do something to stem the tide. I don't want to spend my time dealing with this sort of thing instead of contributing… –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] ([[User talk:Dkf|talk]]) 14:25, 11 July 2013 (UTC) |
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:When I get the RSS updates, I see the deleted material, and on a whim I followed an older one. Even with "nofollow" the material is still there. If what this "person" is trying to do is notice to some site, even the "nofollow" might not be enough to dissuade "it" and the mechanism of the usual deletion but still retaining the archived edit is possibly aiding "it". Is there a method to do a more destructive kill of the entered text without destroying the historical record completely? [[User:Stormneedle|Stormneedle]] ([[User talk:Stormneedle|talk]]) |
:When I get the RSS updates, I see the deleted material, and on a whim I followed an older one. Even with "nofollow" the material is still there. If what this "person" is trying to do is notice to some site, even the "nofollow" might not be enough to dissuade "it" and the mechanism of the usual deletion but still retaining the archived edit is possibly aiding "it". Is there a method to do a more destructive kill of the entered text without destroying the historical record completely? [[User:Stormneedle|Stormneedle]] ([[User talk:Stormneedle|talk]]) |
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== Random ideas - viability hypothetical. == |
== Random ideas - viability hypothetical. == |
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