Wiki spam

[Jonny Lamb]

Hi.

So, I upgraded the wiki to moinmoin 1.6 tonight. It has the option of
adding textchas[0] and I think this will help in the battle against
spam on the wiki.

One can add one's own custom questions, so I need to fill the wiki
config with some questions that people editing the SynCE wiki will be
able to answer easily. The more questions the better.

Anyone got any ideas for questions?

For an interesting test, I ask you *not* to post the answers to any
questions. Not only might this help keep the spammers at bay, but I
feel that if I don't know the answer to your question, then the
question is a poor suggestion.

Thanks,

0. http://moinmo.in/HelpOnTextChas

[Guido Diepen]

Hi Jonny,

Great to hear that the wiki software has been upgraded! Hopefully a simple
protection against spammers will stop the large amount of spam.

I was just looking through the wiki and there appears to be a problem with
certain pages. If you go to:
http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation
all the links to the different source files are not there anymore. It appears
that there is a problem with the fact that these links contained references
to wiki pages with only one capital instead of multiple.

Regarding the questions, can't you have some simple math questions in textual
form?

For example:
What is the answer when you add 15 and 14?

This way you can quickly create a bunch of questions.

Guido Diepen

Post by Jonny Lamb
Hi.
So, I upgraded the wiki to moinmoin 1.6 tonight. It has the option of
adding textchas[0] and I think this will help in the battle against
spam on the wiki.
One can add one's own custom questions, so I need to fill the wiki
config with some questions that people editing the SynCE wiki will be
able to answer easily. The more questions the better.
Anyone got any ideas for questions?
For an interesting test, I ask you *not* to post the answers to any
questions. Not only might this help keep the spammers at bay, but I
feel that if I don't know the answer to your question, then the
question is a poor suggestion.
Thanks,
0. http://moinmo.in/HelpOnTextChas

[Guido Diepen]

Hi,

forgot to add, the pages still do exisist though. You can go to the link:
http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Ubuntu

and there are still the ubuntu instructions. Do you know whether it is
possible to enforce the creation of pages with only one capital? Furthermore,
do you also have a backup of everything as it is now?

Guido Diepen

Post by Guido Diepen
Hi Jonny,
Great to hear that the wiki software has been upgraded! Hopefully a simple
protection against spammers will stop the large amount of spam.
I was just looking through the wiki and there appears to be a problem with
http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation
all the links to the different source files are not there anymore. It
appears that there is a problem with the fact that these links contained
references to wiki pages with only one capital instead of multiple.
Regarding the questions, can't you have some simple math questions in
textual form?
What is the answer when you add 15 and 14?
This way you can quickly create a bunch of questions.
Guido Diepen

Post by Jonny Lamb
Hi.
So, I upgraded the wiki to moinmoin 1.6 tonight. It has the option of
adding textchas[0] and I think this will help in the battle against
spam on the wiki.
One can add one's own custom questions, so I need to fill the wiki
config with some questions that people editing the SynCE wiki will be
able to answer easily. The more questions the better.
Anyone got any ideas for questions?
For an interesting test, I ask you *not* to post the answers to any
questions. Not only might this help keep the spammers at bay, but I
feel that if I don't know the answer to your question, then the
question is a poor suggestion.
Thanks,
0. http://moinmo.in/HelpOnTextChas

[Jonny Lamb]

Post by Guido Diepen
I was just looking through the wiki and there appears to be a problem with
http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation
all the links to the different source files are not there anymore. It appears
that there is a problem with the fact that these links contained references
to wiki pages with only one capital instead of multiple.

Right. I'll see if there's an upgrade script that I can use to update
the syntax.

Post by Guido Diepen
Regarding the questions, can't you have some simple math questions in textual
form?

Yes I suppose. I'll add some soon.