On 16/10/2007, Chuck chuck@mutualaid.org wrote:
Has anybody found a solution for the gibberish spam short of installing captcha extensions?
Not here. I set anonymous edits to false and installed reCaptcha.
Installing reCaptcha doesn't really constitute a big change to the wiki (its quite unobtrusive really), but disallowing anonymous edits is a pain. This is especially true of pre 1.11.0 MW versions where 'view source' doesn't seem to work 'out of the box'.
In theory there should be a simple SQL query to detect these kinds of spam (one nonsense word at the start of a page) - However, it seems better to code a general solution that highlights potential spam for review. Its keeping track of the potentially spammed pages that I find most difficult.
Anyone handy with Bayesian filters? If we could rank edits by 'spaminess' using a Bayesian filter, and be given the option to review the top n most spammy revisions (with feedback training) ... well... that would be great!
Send all your edits to a gmail account and only allow those that get forwarded back?
Chuck
2007@gmask.com wrote:
Yea I don't want to stop anonymous users but it seems like that might be neccessary.. or it would be great if you could captcha new posts from either new users or unfamiliar IP's.
-Adrian
--- Chuck chuck@mutualaid.org wrote:
Benjamin Horst wrote:
I was experiencing the same types of "spam," or whatever it is.
I started to enforce a captcha on every edit, which bothers me, but
stopped the junk. I hope there's a better solution out there!
Thanks, Ben
We're having the same problem with our wikis. It seems that this could be solved if thereis a switch in MediaWiki that really mandates that changes be made by registered users.
We are planning to implement the other spam measures mentioned on this list.
Thanks to the advice from last week about how to stop DIV spam.
Chuck
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