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and experiments related to that plumbing.</span> </p><p>For information about the chat and how to connect to it, refer to <a href="/discuss" title="discuss">discuss</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Bots_on_IRC">Bots on IRC</span></h2> <p>The IRC channel uses these bots: </p> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="http://aaronparecki.com/Loqi">Loqi</a> - Contact: <a href="/User:Aaronpk" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Aaronpk">aaronpk</a>, <a href="/Loqi" title="Loqi">wiki page</a> <ul><li>logs all edits to this wiki</li> <li>logs the irc channel itself to archives on the web</li> <li>logs Twitter mentions of #indieweb or #indiewebcamp to the channel</li> <li>logs <a href="/webmentions" class="mw-redirect" title="webmentions">webmentions</a> of wiki pages</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/Kaja" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaja">Kaja</a> - Contact: <span class="h-card" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/User:Www.svenknebel.de" title="User:Www.svenknebel.de">Sven Knebel</a></span> <ul><li>microformat parsing commands</li> <li>indieweb youtube channel announcements</li></ul></li></ul> <p>want to write your own bots: see <a href="#bot_development">#bot development</a> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Logs">Logs</span></h2> <ul><li><a class="external free" href="https://chat.indieweb.org/today">https://chat.indieweb.org/today</a></li></ul> <p>If the logs have stopped logging or have any other problems, notify <span class="h-card" style="white-space:nowrap"><img src="https://aaronparecki.com/images/profile.jpg" class="" style="height:1.1em;vertical-align:-.1em" alt="" /> <a href="/User:Aaronparecki.com" title="User:Aaronparecki.com">Aaron Parecki</a></span> on the IRC channel. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="IRC_Log_Atom_Feed">IRC Log Atom Feed</span></h3> <p>(Currently unavailable) </p><p>An experimental atom feed was available for the IRC logs. This feed delivers the last full day's log to your feed reader. </p><p>Please report any feed issues to <a class="external free" href="https://github.com/bcomnes/iwc-log-feed/issues">https://github.com/bcomnes/iwc-log-feed/issues</a> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Spam">Spam</span></h3> <p>Occasionally, Libera gets hit with a wave of IRC spam. Typically the pattern is an account joins many channels across Libera and sends repeated similar messages to as many channels as it can, often mentioning other peoples' nicknames in order to get their attention. </p> <ul><li>Anyone registered on <a href="/chat-names" title="chat-names">chat-names</a> can kick users by telling Loqi to kick them using <code>!kick spammer</code></li> <li>Any channel op in our channels can also <code>/kick spammer</code> to remove them from the specific channel immediately</li> <li>Other Libera admins often catch the bots and block them from the server</li></ul> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Red_Alert_Mode">Red Alert Mode</span></h4> <p>In very large spam waves, such as the one starting on 2018-07-31, we can employ additional tricks to prevent the spam from hitting the channels at all. </p> <ul><li>Set everyone currently in the channel to +v (<code>/voice nickname</code>)</li> <li>Set the channel modes to +zm (<code>/mode #indieweb-dev +zm</code>) <ul><li>+m means only people with +v mode can speak in the channel</li> <li>+z allows channel ops to still see the messages from unvoiced users, so Loqi can still see messages from new people and spammers</li> <li>(If the channel is in MLOCK mode, use <code>/msg chanserv set #indieweb-dev mlock +zm</code>)</li></ul></li> <li>When someone joins a channel, Loqi sets a timer for 30 seconds. If they are still in the channel after 30 seconds, they are automatically given +v</li> <li>When an unvoiced user says something, if it matches a spam keyword phrase, they are immediately kicked. <ul><li>If it does not match a spam phrase, then Loqi says "Welcome, {nickname}. Since you weren't yet recognized as a real person, your message wasn't sent to the channel. I'm repeating it below for you.", repeats their message to the channel, and sets +v</li> <li>If the spam does not consistently match a pattern, this last rule can be dropped</li></ul></li></ul> <p>To stand down from red alert, set the channel modes back to <code>-zm</code>, and disable Loqi's auto-voicing hooks. </p> <ul><li><code>/mode #indieweb-dev -zm</code></li></ul> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Spam_in_Chat_Logs">Spam in Chat Logs</span></h4> <p>The IndieWeb chat logs are all stored as files in a GitHub repo, which is where the web interface pulls from. Individual lines in the file can be marked as deleted to avoid them being shown in the web interface. This should only be used to block actual spam, not remove legitimate text from users, even if it is something you don't agree with. </p><p>To help remove spam from the logs, you can send a pull request to the <a class="external text" href="https://github.com/indieweb/indieweb-chat-archive">chat archive</a> repo to mark specific lines as deleted. Find the specific file containing the messages, and then find the specific chat line to mark as deleted. Each line in the file corresponds to a single IRC message, and begins with a timestamp, followed by a JSON string with the log info. To mark as deleted, add <code>"deleted":true</code> as the first property in the JSON text. </p><p>For example, change: </p> <pre>2018-01-01 01:05:10.931300 {"type":"message", ... </pre> <p>to: </p> <pre>2018-01-01 01:05:10.931300 {"deleted":true,"type":"message", ... </pre> <p>Send a pull request containing all your edits together, like <a class="external text" href="https://github.com/indieweb/indieweb-chat-archive/pull/2">this one</a>. Anyone with write access to the repo can merge the change, and <span class="h-card" style="white-space:nowrap"><img src="https://aaronparecki.com/images/profile.jpg" class="" style="height:1.1em;vertical-align:-.1em" alt="" /> <a href="/User:Aaronparecki.com" title="User:Aaronparecki.com">Aaron Parecki</a></span> will then deploy it to the server. This will prevent the spam from being shown in the web logs. </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="How-to_remove_spam">How-to remove spam</span></h4> <p>This is how <span class="h-card" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://vanderven.se/martijn/" class="external u-url" style="padding-right:0;background:none"><img src="https://vanderven.se/martijn/martijn.jpg" class="" style="height:1.1em;vertical-align:-.1em" alt="" /></a> <span class="p-name"><a href="/User:Vanderven.se_martijn" title="User:Vanderven.se martijn">Martijn van der Ven</a></span></span> has been removing spam from the chat.indieweb.org logs: </p> <ol><li>Find the log file with spam in it on <a href="/GitHub" title="GitHub">GitHub</a>. <ol><li>Go to <a class="external text" href="https://github.com/indieweb/indieweb-chat-archive/tree/master/freenode">the GitHub archive</a>.</li> <li>Choose the folder of the matching channel.</li> <li>Follow a folder structure down to the specific day’s log file. Note that days are in UTC.</li></ol></li> <li>Use GitHub’s editor by clicking the pencil icon.<br /><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/File:fork-and-edit.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="/images/6/62/fork-and-edit.png" decoding="async" width="297" height="88" class="mw-file-element" /></a></span></li> <li>Copy the entire file to a plain text editor with <a href="/regular_expression" title="regular expression">regular expression</a> find and replace support. (E.g. <a href="/wiki/index.php?title=BBEdit&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="BBEdit (page does not exist)">BBEdit</a>.)</li> <li>Run a find and replace that marks all lines from a specified user as <code>deleted</code>.<br /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/File:bbedit-find-and-replace-spam.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="/images/thumb/c/cc/bbedit-find-and-replace-spam.png/500px-bbedit-find-and-replace-spam.png" decoding="async" width="500" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="/images/thumb/c/cc/bbedit-find-and-replace-spam.png/750px-bbedit-find-and-replace-spam.png 1.5x, /images/c/cc/bbedit-find-and-replace-spam.png 2x" /></a></span> <ul><li>Match the pattern: <code>(^[0-9:. -]+ {)(.+?,"author":{"uid":"spammername")</code>. Replace <code>spammername</code> with the actual name of the spammer.</li> <li>Replace it with: <code>\1"deleted":true,\2</code>.</li></ul></li> <li>Copy it all back into GitHub’s editor, making sure it ends with exactly 1 empty line.</li> <li>Give it a clear title in the “Propose file change” section identifying what spam you have removed.</li> <li>Press the (green) “Propose file change” button.</li> <li>Check the diff to double check you haven’t made any destructive changes.</li> <li>Press the (green) “Create pull request” button.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/index.php?title=pull_request&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="pull request (page does not exist)">pull request</a> should be auto-filled with the title from step 6. If the title was clear enough you do not need to write anything more, otherwise comment on why/what you changed in the logs.</li></ol> <p><b>Please also send an email to remove the spam from freenode.logbot.info</b> logs per <a class="external free" href="https://freenode.logbot.info/#how-to-scrub">https://freenode.logbot.info/#how-to-scrub</a>: </p> <blockquote><p><a class="external text" href="mailto:byron@glob.com.au">Send me an email</a> or message me on IRC ("glob" on irc.mozilla.org) if there's data that you feel should be scrubbed (eg. spam, accidental leakage of passwords, etc).</p></blockquote> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_Also">See Also</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/discuss" title="discuss">discuss</a></li></ul>    </div> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=discuss_infrastructure&oldid=75958">https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=discuss_infrastructure&oldid=75958</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" role="contentinfo" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 28 May 2021, at 20:34.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Content is available under <a href="/IndieWebCamp:Copyrights" class="mw-redirect" title="IndieWebCamp:Copyrights">a CC0 public domain dedication</a> unless otherwise noted.</li> </ul> <ul id="footer-places"> <li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="/IndieWeb:Privacy_policy">Privacy policy</a></li> <li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/IndieWeb:About">About IndieWeb</a></li> <li id="footer-places-disclaimers"><a href="/IndieWeb:General_disclaimer">Code of Conduct</a></li> </ul> <ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint"> <li id="footer-copyrightico"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><img src="https://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png" alt="a CC0 public domain dedication" width="88" height="31" loading="lazy"></a></li> <li id="footer-poweredbyico"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/"><img src="/wiki/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" srcset="/wiki/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_132x47.png 1.5x, /wiki/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_176x62.png 2x" width="88" height="31" loading="lazy"></a></li> </ul> </footer> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-settings" id="p-dock-bottom"> <ul> <li> <button class="cdx-button cdx-button--icon-only vector-limited-width-toggle" id=""><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-fullScreen mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-fullScreen"></span> <span>Toggle limited content width</span> </button> </li> </ul> </div> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgBackendResponseTime":211,"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.021","walltime":"0.025","ppvisitednodes":{"value":87,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":898,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":83,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":5,"limit":100},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":0,"limit":100},"unstrip-depth":{"value":0,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":359,"limit":5000000},"timingprofile":["100.00% 8.807 1 -total"," 44.26% 3.898 2 Template:aaronpk"," 27.48% 2.420 1 Template:martijnvdven"," 24.23% 2.134 1 Template:sknebel"," 22.42% 1.975 2 Template:sparkline"]},"cachereport":{"timestamp":"20250102143951","ttl":86400,"transientcontent":false}}});});</script> </body> </html>