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--Dag 14:24, 23 January 2008 (EST) Two changes to announce, one is trivial (wiki now upgraded to version 1.11) and one is more far reaching. As of right now, Grid Wiki will only accept edits from people who have registered accounts and passed a trivial CAPTCHA test. Email validation is not required yet.

--Dag 14:51, 15 January 2008 (EST) Hi folks, I have temporarily disabled the URL based whitelist/blacklist and have installed the simple CAPTCHA ConfirmEdit extention for MediaWiki. I'm worried that it may not work all that well since it only gets triggered when a URL is in the edit -- this means it may not stop the bot generated spam. Let me know if you like this or if we should go back to the whitelist/blacklist stuff. I'm still looking for other methods to block the machine/bot generated spam. --Chris

I'm creating this page so that the editors have a designated place for discussions about GridWiki. I'm sure that several of you have noticed that spam has become quite a problem recently, and I'd like to if anyone has any suggestions. If you don't believe me, go check the Special:Recentchanges page.

On several other wikis that I help edit, we've had similar spamming problems, and some basic CATCHPA mechanisms pretty much solved the problem.

A simpler, but also effective, solution was to simply require confirmation for new accounts.

The wiki should remain open, and I don't care if contributers use their real names or an alias. I actually don't object to AI's contributing either, so long as they have something meaningful to add, instead of strings of random numbers or adds for various enhancement drugs. Jbecker 11:37, 31 December 2007 (EST)

This Wikimedia Anti-spam page has some hints also. I think the wiki philosophy/tradition of open edits is not the best for such a low count of dedicated, real users (5 or 6? out of thousands of fake users Special:Listusers). Though I am not opposed to a locked down site, anything that works short of that would be great also. The valid e-mail check sounds like a good idea. In a off-wiki e-mail conversation about the spam issue User:Dag mentioned rebuilding gridengine.info and he was going to try and tighten up security. -- Timcera 14:53, 31 December 2007 (EST)