From annevk at opera.com Sat Jan 12 11:56:53 2008 From: annevk at opera.com (Anne van Kesteren) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:56:53 +0100 Subject: [html4all] wiki spam Message-ID: Hi guys, Your wiki is getting enormous amounts of spam. It seems that jgraham fixed the main page a few times, but there are a lot of other infected pages. I'm not sure who the admin is, but I think it's time to take some action. Kind regards, -- Anne van Kesteren From faulkner.steve at gmail.com Sat Jan 12 12:30:03 2008 From: faulkner.steve at gmail.com (Steven Faulkner) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:30:03 +0000 Subject: [html4all] wiki spam In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <55687cf80801121230m48479993n3612cc1a7f56bfe0@mail.gmail.com> thanks Anne, have gone through and removed all spam (i could find). Admin, are we trying to sort this issue, by tightening up registration? On 12/01/2008, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Your wiki is getting enormous amounts of spam. It seems that jgraham fixed > the main page a few times, but there are a lot of other infected pages. > I'm not sure who the admin is, but I think it's time to take some action. > > Kind regards, > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > > > > _______________________________________________ > List_HTML4all.org mailing list > http://www.html4all.org/wiki > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wilbur.bytowninternet.com/pipermail/list_html4all.org/attachments/20080112/c4d439e5/attachment.html From rob at robburns.com Sat Jan 12 13:01:20 2008 From: rob at robburns.com (Robert J Burns) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:01:20 -0600 Subject: [html4all] wiki spam In-Reply-To: <55687cf80801121230m48479993n3612cc1a7f56bfe0@mail.gmail.com> References: <55687cf80801121230m48479993n3612cc1a7f56bfe0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hello all, I did some quick research and changed some permission settings to prevent anonymous account creation (I believe we already prevented anonymous editing). Please let me know if I've created any unexpected problems. We should come up with a procedure to add new wiki accounts. If only we had the funds of the CIA, we could keep our wiki as clean as Wikipedia. Take care, Rob On Jan 12, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Steven Faulkner wrote: > thanks Anne, > have gone through and removed all spam (i could find). > > Admin, are we trying to sort this issue, by tightening up > registration? > > > On 12/01/2008, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Hi guys, > > Your wiki is getting enormous amounts of spam. It seems that jgraham > fixed > the main page a few times, but there are a lot of other infected > pages. > I'm not sure who the admin is, but I think it's time to take some > action. > > Kind regards, > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > > > > _______________________________________________ > List_HTML4all.org mailing list > http://www.html4all.org/wiki > > > > -- > with regards > > Steve Faulkner > Technical Director - TPG Europe > Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium > > www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org > Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html > _______________________________________________ > List_HTML4all.org mailing list > http://www.html4all.org/wiki -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wilbur.bytowninternet.com/pipermail/list_html4all.org/attachments/20080112/c21acb77/attachment.html From joshue.oconnor at cfit.ie Sun Jan 13 02:46:53 2008 From: joshue.oconnor at cfit.ie (Joshue O Connor) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:46:53 +0000 Subject: [html4all] wiki spam In-Reply-To: References: <55687cf80801121230m48479993n3612cc1a7f56bfe0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4789EC1D.7010006@cfit.ie> Robert J Burns wrote: >If only we had the funds of the CIA [...] Thats something we may look into. J From oedipus at hicom.net Wed Jan 16 09:01:24 2008 From: oedipus at hicom.net (Gregory J. Rosmaita) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:01:24 +0000 Subject: [html4all] wiki spam In-Reply-To: References: <55687cf80801121230m48479993n3612cc1a7f56bfe0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080116165940.M85275@hicom.net> aloha! it seems that the security measures employed at html4all are strict indeed -- the wiki won't let me edit pages i've created, most importantly: http://html4all.org/wiki/index.php/ARIATestTests which needs to be updated with new test links... when i do attempt to edit any of the pages i created at html4all, i receive the following message as a pseudo-label: "This page has been locked to prevent editing; there are a number of reasons why this may be so, please see Project:Protected page." the Project:Protected page, however, is devoid of content... gregory. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. -- Gene Fowler ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita: oedipus at hicom.net OR gregory at ubats.org Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/ Oedipus' Online Complex: http://my.opera.com/oedipus/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- From rob at robburns.com Wed Jan 16 22:43:39 2008 From: rob at robburns.com (Robert J Burns) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:43:39 -0600 Subject: [html4all] wiki spam In-Reply-To: <20080116165940.M85275@hicom.net> References: <55687cf80801121230m48479993n3612cc1a7f56bfe0@mail.gmail.com> <20080116165940.M85275@hicom.net> Message-ID: <78E5A9CD-7620-4DAB-B00B-E52D5DD09234@robburns.com> Hello 4all, Gregory discovered my overzealous lockdown. I need to enable each person individually to edit pages again. Since the list of users has grown unmanageable with vandals, I need each of you to send me your screen name to this list to re-enable wiki access (if you need to edit). I think this also means I could enable users to create accounts, but they still would not be able to edit pages until they make a request. There may be some better way to manage this, but I'm not familiar enough with wiki management. If anyone has suggestions (for technical settings or otherwise), I'd be happy to hear them. Take care, Rob On Jan 16, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: > aloha! > > it seems that the security measures employed at html4all are strict > indeed -- the wiki won't let me edit pages i've created, most > importantly: > > http://html4all.org/wiki/index.php/ARIATestTests > > which needs to be updated with new test links... when i do attempt to > edit any of the pages i created at html4all, i receive the following > message as a pseudo-label: > > "This page has been locked to prevent editing; there are a number of > reasons why this may be so, please see Project:Protected page." > > the Project:Protected page, however, is devoid of content... > > gregory. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room > and left the typewriter running. -- Gene Fowler > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Gregory J. Rosmaita: oedipus at hicom.net OR gregory at ubats.org > Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/ > Oedipus' Online Complex: http://my.opera.com/oedipus/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > List_HTML4all.org mailing list > http://www.html4all.org/wiki From Philip-and-LeKhanh at Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org Thu Jan 17 01:20:18 2008 From: Philip-and-LeKhanh at Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org (Philip TAYLOR) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:20:18 +0000 Subject: [html4all] wiki spam In-Reply-To: <78E5A9CD-7620-4DAB-B00B-E52D5DD09234@robburns.com> References: <55687cf80801121230m48479993n3612cc1a7f56bfe0@mail.gmail.com> <20080116165940.M85275@hicom.net> <78E5A9CD-7620-4DAB-B00B-E52D5DD09234@robburns.com> Message-ID: <478F1DD2.8090804@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org> Rob, what is a "screen name" ? ** Phil. Robert J Burns wrote: I need each of you to send me your > screen name to this list to re-enable wiki access From rob at robburns.com Thu Jan 17 12:29:05 2008 From: rob at robburns.com (Robert J Burns) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:29:05 -0600 Subject: [html4all] wiki spam In-Reply-To: <478F1DD2.8090804@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org> References: <55687cf80801121230m48479993n3612cc1a7f56bfe0@mail.gmail.com> <20080116165940.M85275@hicom.net> <78E5A9CD-7620-4DAB-B00B-E52D5DD09234@robburns.com> <478F1DD2.8090804@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org> Message-ID: Hi Phil, By screen name, I just meant the user name created when you create an account on the wiki. I'm not sure if everyone has created such an account, but due to spam/vandalism, we have to require it now. Take care, Rob On Jan 17, 2008, at 3:20 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > Rob, what is a "screen name" ? > ** Phil. > > Robert J Burns wrote: > > I need each of you to send me your >> screen name to this list to re-enable wiki access > > _______________________________________________ > List_HTML4all.org mailing list > http://www.html4all.org/wiki