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Hello everybody! After getting quite a bit of Wiki Spam I've installed public-password protection on editing, since I thought most spam was probably automatically generated by dumb robots. But recently, more and more spam is coming through, which indicate some (minimal) intelligence from spammers... I'd like to hear suggestions.
- I suppose the easiest would be to just stay as we are, and have good people clean up (thanks to all those who have helped keep this site alive!).
- Install a filter to automatically reject pages with some words in them, at least it will prevent to get some spam twice. Not sure how to do that...
- Try another wiki. Suggestions?
- Other ideas?...
Hi, I just cleaned the homepage. I think that blacklisting ips might be a good start, even if it is might not be totally effective. You might want to try the list of blocked ips from Wikipedia.
The spammers aren't even coming to the password-protected edit page. They post directly to the form using custom spamming tools, I'll bet. If it's still a problem, use Google's new "nofollow" link attribute on all pages newer than a week, so that it's pretty certain that spam will be removed before a major search engine takes the link seriously. Gerald: Thanks for the suggestions, I've just added a nofollow attributes to "Pages Revisions" links, so that deleted spam is not accounted by Google. I'm not sure yet if I can put it on all new links as you suggested, I'm not a PHP expert!
another wiki I see that Lion Kimbro upgraded to MoinMoin 1.3 because it is supposedly more spam resistant. It seems that every wiki is experiencing spam problems -- is there a central place to talk about it and share solutions ? -- David Cary? See http://CommunityWiki.org/WikiSpam
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