[Noisebridge-discuss] Wiki spam

[L E]

Good catch.  More than a simple annoyance, that bad edit (from Chile) carried 
with it a link to a website infected with (at least) a trojan horse, according 
to Avast! antivirus.

(Wikipedia by policy implements IP blocking, userid blocking, CAPTCHA to slow 
down spamming by IP editors, and URL blacklisting, so that bad URLS can't even 
be added to an article. So I think this is built in to, or an add-on for 
MediaWiki)


Maybe IP ("anonymous") editing should not be permitted?  That may have already 
been discussed and nixed, more's the pity...  I mean, it's so easy to create a 
userid, which is _more_ anonymous that a raw IP address (except to admins).
- Lex


----- Original Message ----
> From: Sai <noisebridge at saizai.com>
> 
> I've seen a couple pages with this sort of stupid edit:
> 
>https://noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Moving/2169_Mission/challenges&diff=14079&oldid=6419
>9
> 
> I  reverted. Worth doing anything at a system level to detect and
> block, rather  than having us just revert ad hoc?
> 
> -  Sai
>