[Noisebridge-discuss] Wiki spam

[lee worden]

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Robert Fletcher wrote:
> Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Wiki spam
> 
> Yeah, I cleaned up about 30 pages yesterday.  It would be really nice if we
> implemented some way to prevent this.  I know you can use captchas for
> signups on mediawiki, but I'm not sure about anonymous edits.  And now
> looking at my feeds today it looks like there are almost 200 edits.  At
> first glance the bulk of them are spam.  We're going to have to do something
> about this.
>
> -Rob
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Sai <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:46 AM, L E <lexein-esc at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe IP ("anonymous") editing should not be permitted?  That may have
>> already
>>> been discussed and nixed, more's the pity...
>>
>> FWIW I think anon editing should be edited (by revert was without
>> signing in, even).
>>
>> I was hoping for more something like a spam detector on the content
>> triggering a CAPTCHA. But I don't know if this exists for mediawiki.
>>
>> - Sai
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