[Koha-devel] KohaWiki defaced daily

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

MJ Ray wrote:

> http://www.koha.org/wiki/ is being attacked by linkspammers almost every 
> day. Recently, they have become more destructive, wiping out acres of 
> material, such as on the QuestionsPosed page.
> 
> I'm against forcing user registration, but can we take some other action 
> against these? Maybe some simple way to mark a change as spam, revert to 
> the previous and flag it for the admin to look at (to ban IPs, contact 
> remote network admins or whatever). It's not as easy to deal with total 
> destruction of pages, unlike the simple "add links to end of page" spam 
> we used to get.

That's a real shame - hmm, is there a way that unregisterd users changes 
get sent for vetting? so you have to register to edit directly?

Cheers
Rachel



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