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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com>
  • To: Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl>
  • Cc: "cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org" <cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] Spamlinks on the CC wiki
  • Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:05:47 -0800

I somewhat sadly recommend installing
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount

Mike

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl> wrote:
> I had a long discussion about the spam on the wiki about with Nathan
> Kinkade about a year ago. There are several methods in place to try and
> stop spammers. The ones that get through are either placed by humans or
> using accounts that are created by humans. It takes human effort to block
> them as it is, something that CC-HQ had no personnel for at the time.
>
> I tried to help a bit, but it was tedious and not very useful. I did remove
> all the nudity I could find in the mediastore of wiki last year though.
> That is a task with things that cannot be unseen..
>
> Best,
>
> Maarten
>
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> On 11 Nov 2013, at 12:36 , BjornW <burobjorn AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just noticed some spam links on the CC wiki. See
>> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Services in the paragraph
>> 'Documentation' there are words like 'sepatu' linking to an url I won't
>> repeat here.
>>
>> Not sure if this is the only page, but perhaps someone of CC HQ could
>> run some sort of spam link checker over the wiki?
>>
>> grtz
>> BjornW
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