[Mediawiki-l] jibberish

Dan Bolser dan.bolser at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 12:37:35 UTC 2007


On 16/10/2007, Eric K <ek79501 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think making an IP do a captcha on its first edit only would help. The captcha would keep a record of the most recent IP's in a table and if an edit hasnt been recorded from them, give them a captcha, otherwise pass. This may mean the IP table would grow large (may not be fast for large wikis with lots of editing), but purge it a certain period (15 days etc). Captcha has to be there one way or the other. This is least irritating.

I like the idea.


>   There is definitely no way to check if an edit is spam or not, except for capthcha.

Not currently. I think a 'review for spam' feature would work very
well for most small sites.



>
> Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:
>   On 16/10/2007, Chuck 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 at 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 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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