[Systems] Spam on cl.sugarlabs.org

[Frederick Grose]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> On 08/15/2013 04:35 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> Hello Werner,
>>
>> are you still the maintainer of cl.sugarlabs.org? The wiki has been
>> overwritten with spam, and I'd like to get it despammed as soon as
>> possible or taken down. The MediaWiki db has quickly grown to 3GB and
>> keeps growing.
>
> Sebastian, the same thing is happening to pe.sugarlabs.org:
>
>   http://pe.sugarlabs.org/go/Especial:CambiosRecientes
>
> --
>  _ // Bernie Innocenti
>  \X/  http://codewiz.org

See
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_talk:Quozl#Defending
for recent changes at wiki.laptop.org due to spam.

See
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2013-May/041280.html
(and followup by the author) for a recently suggested control method.

The OpenID extension author recently said that he is working to
restore the ability to require new users to register with OpenID:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51331

          --Fred