Am 22.05.2013 19:07, schrieb halz:
If you've ever set up a fresh MediaWiki and tried to leave it open to editing, you'll know about the problem of wiki spam. There's various well documented tricks to tackle the problem on your own wiki (although it seems to me that some of these are becoming less effective over time. Particularly reCaptcha)
Im using ConfirmEdit with QuestyCaptcha to restrict account-creation, and AbuseFilter to filter anonymous edits. Works for me, we had about 2 Spam-Edits since I configured AbuseFilter (more than a year ago).
Do you think we should try to contact them and explain that they are behaving badly? Maybe on these forums. Maybe we'd have to spam them back repeatedly with such messages as they get removed by the admins.
I wouldnt recommend trying to out-spam the spammers. Chances are that they are better at this.
And on youtube do you think we can get videos like this removed?
You can try. Wouldnt count on it though.
We can at least comment on them and vote them down (Youtube finds quite a lot of similar videos)
Please dont do that. All thats gonna accomplish is that the videos will rise in the search rankings (yes, even the downrating does that).
Greetings Stip