Hi Richard,
I don't know. It seems like there are still problems with spam, but maybe that perception is incorrect. Are you saying that there are already good solutions (for wikis) which do not require many man-hours and dedicated staff to maintain and that some wiki admins just haven't stumbled upon yet? The Check Spambots extension is still in beta so I am wondering what successful extensions have been used previously... or is that extension the answer to all of our concerns? Could the wiki community not be helped with a more specialized form of spam lists? After all, there are many kinds of spam lists anyways.
Is there really nothing more that can be done?
________________________________ From: Richard legalize@xmission.com To: Al Johnson alj62888@yahoo.com; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.
In article 1369437337.9904.YahooMailNeo@web161904.mail.bf1.yahoo.com, Al Johnson alj62888@yahoo.com writes:
Another issue is the effort that would be required for a centralized DB/authority model.
They already exist. It's called Spamhaus. What's wrong with enhancing this extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Check_Spambots