gs wiki spamming

[BeerGarage]

Hi guys

It seems the GS wiki is under spam attack.  Every time I go to read something, I have to wade through tons of spam posts to restore the content.  Anyone know if this is normal, and if there is anything we can do about it?

Thanks

[fred]

You could probably turn off anonymous edits.... That's what wikipedia ended up doing...

[galahs]

Yeah something needs to be done

[Paulcet]

I just went and restored several of the wiki pages.  And in fact, a spammer was doing the same!  Jack Donkey!

Probably automated.  Is there a way to automate dialing 866-441-3579 ? 

Taste of their own medicine?

[TheGoodGuy]

well we might want to move the server over to gstwins.. sanjay contact me please.

[BeerGarage]

The last week has mostly been "something.yourfreehosting dot net"  Possible to block any post containing that site?

[TheGoodGuy]

if i had operational control i would have done it already.

M

[BeerGarage]

Sanjay - I think that is the webmaster of the wiki.

Sanjay,

I want to make clear that I am NOT criticizing you or the work you do on the wiki.  I love the site.  I love that we can all edit it.  I have a website too and I have trouble keeping up with it.  I spend some time with my family or get involved in a project at work, and the next thing I know I am hacked and spammed and shut down. 

So - thank you Sanjay.

[Esteban]

if i had operational control i would have done it already.

M

Since the GS500 wiki is hosted using a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License, you can host a MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) and port the data.  With a MediaWiki we would have MUCH more control and transparency.  Just make sure to put a note on the front page attributing the information to the original wiki.

[TheGoodGuy]

well I am ready to setup the wiki on gstwin. The subdomain is already setup http://wiki.gstwins.com

I am waiting for the data.

humm... it seems MediaWiki requires PHP5, we're running 4.9.x.x, i cant upgrade to 5 yet because this forum works best with PHP4 and not 5, I'll upgrade to 5 and fix everything once the new version of SMF is out.

[Esteban]

I'd be happy to host the wiki on my server (which I've had since 2006), which mediawiki works fine on.  I've got tons of bandwidth that I am happy to donate (this past month I've only used: 4357.88/999000 MB) and have more than enough space.  The two issues would be:
1. The wiki would have the domain theanova.com (e.g. www.theanova.com/GSWiki or gswiki.theanova.com).
2. All hosted images would either need to be available under a Creative Commons or GNU license (or any other that allows for free non-commercial distribution w/ attribution) or they would have to qualify for fair use (I don't want to risk the entire wiki going under from overzealous C&D notices).

Once it is running though, it would be pretty much self-sustaining.

[Esteban]

1. The wiki would have the domain theanova.com (e.g. www.theanova.com/GSWiki or gswiki.theanova.com).

I do like the idea of having wiki.gstwins.com though...

[TheGoodGuy]

I am duplicating the Wiki Files on GStwin, I will wait for Sanjay to send me the wiki files.