When Richard says "It seems the appropriate thing to do is to leverage that
work instead of re-inventing it."
I take that to mean simply installing all the spam-fighting services, extensions, daemons,
etc.. that already exist. Or, perhaps, creating a monster bundle with an integrated
assortment of spam-fighting tools. I think it's OK to brainstorm new approaches.
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From: Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)everybody.org>
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 3:56 AM
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.
I run a spam/virus filtering email relay for some clients and I agree
with most of what Richard says:
Everything that's being discussed has already been
done to combat
email spam. It seems the appropriate thing to do is to leverage that
work instead of re-inventing it.
There is also Akismet which Wordpress users can use. I'm sure there is
a lot of work that has been put into blocking spam in blog comments and
email that overlaps.
I recently discovered a test wiki I had set up and forgotten about had
been overrun with spam and started using it to watch the spammers and
record their "work".
From these observations, I think I like Jamie Thingelstad's idea (partly
because, yes, it would persuade people to make sure their wiki is
registered at WikiApiary):
On 05/24/2013 07:58 PM, Jamie Thingelstad wrote:
One thought I have had is having WikiApiary use a bot
account on
remote wikis that wish to participate to fight spammers, revert
changes, ban them, etc.
If you could also collect urls added in reverted edits, it seems like
those would be good candidates for a shared blacklist.
Mark.
--
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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity
is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.
-- G.K. Chesterson
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