On 11/4/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Nevertheless, the vast majority of spam on inactive _Wikipedias_ is from unloggedin users.
But only because we don't make them log in, not because it's hard to do so. It's far more of a deterrent to genuine editors than to spam bots.
Blocking "that-medicine-that-starts-with-c" will prevent anyone writing about socialism (which was rather a problem for socialism.wikicities.com) :)
See-eye-a-ell-eye-ess is related to _socialism_??
At the risk of ending up in everyone's spam bins, I'll spell it out: "so...Cialis...m". Blocking the word blocks any words that contain it.
if I were to receive an e-mail every two hours with a list of suspicious edits, I could revert them immediately as nessecary.
I'd also be more likely to check edits sent to me by email. Perhaps http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EmailNotification could be adapted. Currently, I don't think it will send diffs, and there's no way of filtering for "suspicious" edits.
Angela.