[pp.int.general] Spam on the wiki

[Aza]

This only takes a few minutes to set up
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA

The downside is it's google
http://www.google.com/recaptcha/policy

-r

2011/6/1 Philip Hunt <cabalamat at googlemail.com>:
> On 27 May 2011 12:07, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Re "tihis would contradict the whole idea of a wiki" -- not really,
>> once a user has been approved (s)he can freely edit all pages for
>> which (s)he has been granted edit rights.
>>
>> I have managed many large wikis and, even though we always started
>> with open access, we always had to introduce access control to keep
>> spam out at some point. I think a wiki is defined by collaborative
>> editing features more than by open access policy.
>>
>> As soon as a wiki is listed in the databases of spammers, you start
>> getting tens of spam edits _per hour_ -- no way to keep spam out with
>> one or two volunteer admins.
>
> This appears to be happening. If you look at
> <http://int.piratenpartei.de/Special:RecentChanges>, *every* change
> today (1 June) is either spam or wierd stuff (e.g.
> <http://int.piratenpartei.de/ThankYouMars_for_teaching_me_how_to_Jump_Also_Touch_THE_SKY_76>)
>
> This needs to be fixed.
>
> --
> Philip Hunt, <cabalamat at gmail.com>
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