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:Protecting pages, or the whole wiki, can lead to escalation... | :Protecting pages, or the whole wiki, can lead to escalation... | ||
::[[User:Geyser|geyser]] 18:00, 9 March 2008 (CET) | ::[[User:Geyser|geyser]] 18:00, 9 March 2008 (CET) | ||
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==Beans and spam== | ==Beans and spam== | ||
:I see that we're still getting vandalized. Really, is barring anon edits a bad thing? I know there's the ''possibility'' of bots registering and then editing, but we can easily stop that with capchas (hopefully not the really hard kind, even I can't do those, and I'm more or less a human being!). Let's not be held back by fear, from trying to fight spambots. Remember, the only thing to fear is fear itself. And clowns. Fear and clowns. --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 16:07, 28 March 2008 (CET) | :I see that we're still getting vandalized. Really, is barring anon edits a bad thing? I know there's the ''possibility'' of bots registering and then editing, but we can easily stop that with capchas (hopefully not the really hard kind, even I can't do those, and I'm more or less a human being!). Let's not be held back by fear, from trying to fight spambots. Remember, the only thing to fear is fear itself. And clowns. Fear and clowns. --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 16:07, 28 March 2008 (CET) | ||
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:::::No surprise, but it sucks to be right. Cassandra Syndrome. | :::::No surprise, but it sucks to be right. Cassandra Syndrome. | ||
::::::[[User:Geyser|geyser]] 16:40, 2 June 2008 (CEST) | ::::::[[User:Geyser|geyser]] 16:40, 2 June 2008 (CEST) | ||
=We have a problem= | |||
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==Spam no more?== | |||
As of June 2, Alloc has disabled automatic account creation by installing the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount ConfirmAccount] extension. Now, any new accounts have to go through Alloc. I guess that, as long as Alloc can tell a spammer by his (requested) user name, we should be safe from now on. :-) --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] 18:55, 11 June 2011 (CEST) | |||
==We have a problem== | |||
Exactly four hundred and twenty five wanted pages of a problem. Unnecessary links should be terminated ASAP (i.e. anarchy, what was THAT about?!) and all links that wish to be preserved should have at least a place-holder article. This may not be spam, but it's certainly like it. So commands the Imago. [[User:Imago|Imago]] 23:14, 28 July 2008 (CEST) | Exactly four hundred and twenty five wanted pages of a problem. Unnecessary links should be terminated ASAP (i.e. anarchy, what was THAT about?!) and all links that wish to be preserved should have at least a place-holder article. This may not be spam, but it's certainly like it. So commands the Imago. [[User:Imago|Imago]] 23:14, 28 July 2008 (CEST) | ||
:If we create placeholder articles, it will be harder to tell what needs to be added or not. At least with redlinks we can see where we need to add things, and all of those things are nicely orgaized on one nice page. :) (Gumby) | :If we create placeholder articles, it will be harder to tell what needs to be added or not. At least with redlinks we can see where we need to add things, and all of those things are nicely orgaized on one nice page. :) (Gumby) | ||