On Mon, 27 May 2013 08:44:31 +0200, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs wrote:
On 24/05/13 22:41, Al Johnson wrote:
Maybe mediawiki sites can unite to keep a global list of these IP's and block them as soon as they are submitted. Each mediawiki site can auto-submit a spammer IP as soon as it's discovered to the global list.
What are the problems with this idea?
There exist such lists for forum spam, for example http://www.stopforumspam.com/ . I suspect a lot of IPs would end up being used for wiki spam too, and of course you can add wiki spam to the
list.
It is a bloody good and useful list, I have introduced fellow stewards in its use, and gives a good indication of the period of infection/infiltration. Also one we will quote in our IP blocks reasons, either individually or in IP ranges. Would be fantastic in an adjunct to a bayesian system, from either a complete fail, or as a factor in increasing the blocking score, especially if used in conjunction with time period since last abused. [Abused and used today, score a 4, abused yesterday, score 3.0, last week 2, ... You just need to be aware that is raw data and you need to be aware of closed proxies like those operated by Singnet +++]
I will note that we are finding at WMF wikis, that we often can be a leader (first spammed) so it may be a day before the data appears there. It would be useful if we could feed data back.
Regards, Billinghurst