[wp-docs] Codex Spam

[Lorelle on WordPress]

As noted in the other thread on the subject, Matt just replied and agreed
that something has to be done from their end as this is just too much of a
burden on the docs team due to the quantity involved. They are also looking
at turning off open registration on the Codex as registration across .org is
all combined. This should help prevent some of the spammers using MediaWiki
secret sauce methods of spamming.

We'll get more details soon, but in the meantime, thanks all for trying to
do this manually, but let's let the magic of MySQL clean this out behind the
scenes and hopefully help to reduce this kind of spamming.

Thanks!!

Lorelle


On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:41 PM, mrmist <listswpdocs at mist.org.uk> wrote:

> In message <AANLkTimMTC6OAAQ2O-vYirrzCa570863gOJAcYY5Pcpa at mail.gmail.com>,
> Lorelle on WordPress <lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com> writes
>
>  I've requested from the "officials" to help us with a mass cleaning of the
>> spam on the Codex. So let's stop the manual effort for now as that could
>> interfere with the process. If they can't do it, we'll get back to work on
>> this
>> manually, but there are more than 600 of these. It takes FOREVER to do
>> this manually.
>>
>>
> OK sure no problem.  Hopefully there is a database solution.
>
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