[Noisebridge-discuss] Wiki spam

[jim]

how about make it ro for some number of hours? 




On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:49 -0800, Robert Fletcher wrote:
> 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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