[Noisebridge-discuss] Wiki spam

[Robert Fletcher]

I'm afraid today is a record low.  Check it out:

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Safety
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Concepts
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Moving/2169_Mission/Access_Control

Like I said, I've got almost 200 of them just today.  The entire site is
swamped with edits right now.  I've seen on other wikis where the spammer
edits thousands of times so that it's near impossible to revert.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:15:58AM -0800, Robert Fletcher wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for the cleanup help, Rob.  I think I've gotten most of the spam.
> I suppose we could captcha anonymous edits, but it's not much of a
> barrier -- Mechanical Turk style captcha-solvers are common.
>
> I'm not happy with the idea of disallowing anon edits, although I won't
> rule it out categorically.
>
> Obviously offsite links by anon editors are, shall we say, highly
> suspect.  Seems like a spam filter of some kind is in order; anybody
> have experience with them and want to help set on up for Noisebridge?
>
> -andy
>
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