[aprssig] aprs wiki

[ka7o at ka7o.net]

Scott,

I've had the same issue with the local club and state wikis that I host
here. I've had to go so far as to essentially 'disable' user account
creation. Now, a new user has to 'request' a new account. It's a pretty
easy mod. It forces new accounts to type up something about themselves (a
bio). Not too hard to weed out the 'bots' and farmers. Been running this
way for about 6 months and so far ::knock on wood:: so good. New folks get
added in and the vandals stay outside the gates.

Here it is - with docs, etc:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount

It does add to the admin overhead - some. But it also eliminates a ton of
edits and roll-backs.

73
Tate
casperarc.net
wyomingsection.org

> Both the APRS wiki and the Argent wiki got hit by spammers a while back.
>   I locked down both to require email verification, and that seems to
> have kept them off the Argent wiki but not info.aprs.net.
>
> I'd be happy to designate a couple more admins to help keep the spammers
> in check.  And it looks like we're going to need a better Captcha or
> something.  If someone can suggest one, I'll go set it up when I get a
> chance.  For now, some help weeding out the spam and the spammer
> accounts would be appreciated.  Non-admins should at least be able to
> rename pages.
>
> If I can figure out how to get IP addresses associated with the spam
> posts, I can start blocking them if they're consistent.
>
> Scott
> N1VG
>
> On 5/9/2011 12:04 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
>> If you look at the revisions to the main page, I'd have to say it was
>> pirated by spammers:
>>
>> http://info.aprs.net/index.php/Special:Recentchanges
>>
>> And has been for quite some time according to checking for the past 30
>> days of changes.
>>
>> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
>>
>> On 5/9/2011 1:20 PM, Bill V WA7NWP wrote:
>>> The wikipedia APRS page has a reference to the APRS wiki at
>>> http://info.aprs.net/index.php/Main_Page which appears to be totally
>>> gone. Do we still have an APRS wiki? Is the wikipedia link wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill - WA7NWP
>>>
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