Remove spam from wiki

[Pierre Slamich]

There are a couple of pages in the wiki that are spam and should be deleted. I blanked a couple of them, but I don't have the admin rights to delete them alltogether.

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

I think I gave you rights to delete and protect pages. I also think protecting pages by default is a good idea. Another thing would be to update the Mediawiki engine to provide better SPAM filters, but I don't know anybody willing to deal with it.

Whoever wants to fight spam or update/protect/delete etc wiki pages on Screenlets.org, just let me know here.

[Pierre Slamich (pierre-slamich)]

* Removed the most obvious spam pages (might be some spam in the legitimate pages though)
* Fixed the forum link on the homepage

I guess a good solution would be a captcha and an update of mediawiki. I don't know how hard it actually is.

[Papp Bence (sclegnrbs)]

On the homepage I can't see the forum link.

Or just I am blind?

[Pierre Slamich (pierre-slamich)]

One of the wiki manager removed it, arguing the Forum was not active anymore.

What should we do ?

[Papp Bence (sclegnrbs)]

My opinion is that we have to make a new Forum,or maybe IRC, or other stuff, because it's important for the developing. (or just use the old forum, if the wiki manager allow)

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

The previous forum was not just inactive, but there was no forum on that address at all. If there will be a new forum, we should link to it, but on the on the other hand, what's wrong with the Launchpad questions and Screenlets project mailing list? Isn't this enough for development discussions?

I think we could also point to IRC chatroom for real-time development discussions. What about #<email address hidden>? Although I'm not sure, there will be somebody permanently in the chatroom. I could pop in occasionally of course, but if there will be noone sitting 24/7 in the chatroom, is there a point to shout it on the Screenlets.org main page?

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

It seems that #<email address hidden> is already registered and is invite only. Somebody shoud find out, who owns the channel and probably ask make it free to join... I don't see why the channel should be invite only.

[Papp Bence (sclegnrbs)]

Ok
The Launchpad questions and the mailing list are good, but on the IRC we can discuss the development.

Why not register screenlets-dev on Freenode?

[Pierre Slamich (pierre-slamich)]

http://forum.compiz.org/viewforum.php?f=102
This is the correct link.

[Märt Põder (boamaod)]

#9 Yes, it seems the link is working fine. I enabled the forum on home page again.

#8 Can't we reuse the #screenlets channel? I think we should try at least. If we cannot, #screenlets-dev is fine too.

[Pierre Slamich (pierre-slamich)]

The wiki is spammed again.
Here's a page to combat spam on mediawiki
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam

[VisionInit (visioninit)]

interested in converting the site to Drupal and using the platform I've developed for http://schoolforge.net, http://boycottplus.org annd http://freehealthsoftware.org? It would make a great interface for searching through screenlets.