[Can we please do a little trim-and-quote instead of top-posting? It's
making it hard to follow the conversation.]
I wrote:
They already exist. It's called Spamhaus.
What's wrong with
enhancing this extension:
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Check_Spambots>
In article <1369440421.38235.YahooMailNeo(a)web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>om>,
Al Johnson <alj62888(a)yahoo.com> writes:
I don't know. It seems like there are still
problems with spam, but maybe
that perception is incorrect.
Since I require users to be logged-in to edit and I don't have open
automatic account creation, I have zero problems with respect to
spam. I was planning on allowing account creation requests with
admin approval to open up to the next level of user participation, but
I would never open up my wiki to anonymous edits or account creation
without some form of review.
Is there really nothing more that can be done?
If you aren't already doing the things listed here:
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam>
Then it seems obvious that is where you should start.
If you're saying that you're already doing everything listed there and
you're still overwhelmed with spam, then I'd say that new techniques
need to be developed or existing techniques for combatting spam improved.
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