[Haskell-cafe] Re: deleting spam on the wiki

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

I already added the category "Pages to be removed" to these pages, so they  
turn up on page:
   http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Category:Pages_to_be_removed
There are are other pages in this category.

Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


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On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:36:44 +0100, Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org>  
wrote:

> You can blank the page but you cannot delete it. I'll delete the pages
> and block the user/IP address later today.
>
> -- Ashley
>
> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 15:37 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
>
>> Who is able to delete wiki spam?
>>
>> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=Special:Contributions&target=Tomso123
>>
>> All the pages created by this user appear to be spam (check the google
>> translation) so the account should probably be deleted too.
>>
>> As I understand it, any registered user can revert changes to a page:
>> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Help:Editing
>>
>> However if a registered user creates new spam pages then other ordinary
>> registered users cannot revert that change.
>>
>> Is there some way of reporting spam pages to the appropriate people that
>> I missed?
>>
>> Duncan
>>
>>



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