[Koha] Problems with the Koha wiki - registration and editing for new users

[Chris Cormack]

The wiki used to relay through my personal linode (whichs runs bugs.koha-community.org) but as you can see something/one is trying to spam quite heavily.
What they are doing is entering email addresses that aren't their own so innocent people get mail, they then mark as spam and bugs.koha-community.org ends up in blacklists.
I've disabled the relay and removed bugs from the blacklists it was on. Hopefully Galen and the others who look after the wiki can come up with a way to stop it, or another way to confirm users.

Chris

Paul <paul.a at aandc.org> wrote:

At 01:20 PM 5/30/2012 +0000, someone wrote:
>I was trying to edit the wiki and had the same problem, no confimration 
>email. I tried, yahoo and gmail as well. Nothing in my work outlook spam 
>filters.

Maybe something is badly "overwhelmed" at the wiki end? I just had a quick 
look at the User Creation Log 
<http://wiki.koha-community.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&limit=500&type=newusers&month=&year=>; 
and there have been 500 "new" accounts created in the last two weeks. Most 
of them look like automated spammer sign-ups -- and quite frankly I don't 
think this community group could|would have shown such interest ;-}

Best - Paul 

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