Re: Mediawiki

[Chris Vetter]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:55:34 -0700 (PDT), Greg wrote:
> All,
> I have reverted the front page.  I suggest we lock down the front page of
> the gui to all except known members of the team.
> Also, we need to ban Vova1 and others, since Vova1, from looking at the
> logs, was primarily responsible for the destruction.
> Further, is there a way to review people's application to contribute to
> wiki prior to them being able to create a login and simply do so?
> This might help mitigate issues like this.

Some random thoughts:

1) Require people to type some text displayed as an image upon logging in.
This will lock out most (if not all) bots.

2) Expire logins between different sessions.
While it's very convenient not to have to log in every time you re-visit the
Wiki, people won't be able to log in, then have a bot use that login to
screw up, anymore.

3) "Throttle" saving of edited pages.
If IP a.b.c.d is trying to save X pages all within Y seconds, there cannot
possibly be a person doing the edit.

4) Check timestamp between start and end of an "Edit" session.
If saving is too soon (say, within a minute), most likely there's not a
person editing the text.

5) Have "Edit" sessions expire.
So pages won't be blocked.

6) In case of 3-5, automatically add the IP (or the whole IP range?) to a
blacklist.


I'm not familiar with Mediawiki, so I do not know whether it is possible to
implement the ideas, but if, we (you) should at least please think about it.

It doesn't make a good impression if the Recent Changes page mostly shows
addition of SPAM and DeSPAM entries...

-- 
Chris

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