openhatch

Issue659

Title Vandalism on talk pages
Milestone later Priority urgent
Waiting On Status in-progress
Superseder Nosy List aldeka, jesstess, paulproteus, willkahngreene
Assigned To paulproteus Keywords

Created on 2012-01-15.15:25:12 by jesstess, last changed 2012-08-29.13:01:48 by jesstess.

Messages
msg3379 (view) Author: jesstess Date: 2012-08-29.13:01:47
Here are some pages that still have spam:

https://openhatch.org/wiki/Talk:Software_Freedom_Day_2011_Boston/Schedule
https://openhatch.org/wiki/User:108.3.196.171
https://openhatch.org/wiki/User:189.204.69.172
https://openhatch.org/wiki/Project_night

I found these by clicking a random selection of links on https://openhatch.org/w/index.php?
title=Special:UnwatchedPages (so there are probably more).
msg3372 (view) Author: paulproteus Date: 2012-08-22.17:40:19
Jessica and/or Karen and/or willkg, I'd like you to take a look at the wiki and 
see if you think it's successfully not full of spam. If so, please mark this as 
resolved!

(takluyver, thank you for bringing up the issue with the forums. Let's make that 
a different ticket. The solution will be different. I agree with the goal of 
making that happen!)
msg3371 (view) Author: takluyver Date: 2012-08-22.17:21:38
Note that the forums are also dominated by spam:
http://forum.openhatch.org/discussions
msg3255 (view) Author: paulproteus Date: 2012-05-17.00:35:54
We've made good progress on this, but it's not February anymore, by a long shot. 
Moving to 'later'.
msg3230 (view) Author: paulproteus Date: 2012-05-13.17:58:38
My solution doesn't totally work.

Further thoughts here: http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2012-
May/002839.html

The current effort is to use GitMediawiki to make manual cleanup easier.
msg3184 (view) Author: paulproteus Date: 2012-05-02.22:28:04
Vandalism problems are definitely a serious problem on our wiki. Jessica, thanks
for filing this ticket.

Looking at http://openhatch.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges , we get 0-10
vandalism edits per week. That's actually something a human can deal with, so
long as that person receives notifications and acts on those notifications.

I'll subscribe to the RSS feed, as per willkahngreene's suggestion, and just
make sure to respond to the RSS feed contents daily... done.

I'll mark this plan as need-review and just personally take responsibility for
being the anti-wiki-spam person.

Now, I will say -- if someone else wants to take this job from me, that'd be great!

I've gone ahead and removed the current crop of wiki spam as far as I can find.
msg2886 (view) Author: willkahngreene Date: 2012-01-15.15:41:37
We had vandalism problems with mediagoblin wiki. I ended up setting up
rss2email, pointed it at the RecentPages rss feed, and now get notified of any
changes to the wiki. Thus I can remove stuff as it happens without having to be
proactive about checking.

I don't know offhand if that'd be useful for you folks or not, but it's working
for us currently mostly because we don't have a ton of changes.

The thing I want to do soon is set up an IRC bot to monitor our wiki changes and
tell us on IRC when they happen. That's more of a crowd-surfy solution.
msg2885 (view) Author: jesstess Date: 2012-01-15.15:25:06
I got an alert about User talk:Jesstess3 getting created with bogus content:

https://openhatch.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=User_talk%3AJesstess3

This probably means a bunch of talk pages have been vandalized. We need to:

1. Revert the vandalism
2. Implement something to keep this from happening / keep this from happening as easily
History
Date User Action Args
2012-08-29 13:01:48jesstesssetstatus: need-review -> in-progress
messages: + msg3379
2012-08-22 17:40:19paulproteussetstatus: in-progress -> need-review
assignedto: paulproteus
messages: + msg3372
2012-08-22 17:21:39takluyversetmessages: + msg3371
2012-05-17 00:35:55paulproteussetmessages: + msg3255
milestone: 0.12.02 -> later
2012-05-13 17:58:38paulproteussetstatus: need-review -> in-progress
messages: + msg3230
2012-05-02 22:28:04paulproteussetstatus: chatting -> need-review
nosy: + aldeka, willkahngreene
messages: + msg3184
2012-01-15 15:41:42willkahngreenesetstatus: unread -> chatting
messages: + msg2886
2012-01-15 15:25:12jesstesscreate