Re: [Wikitech-l] Nasty spambot - any ideas?

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:42:38 -0800 From: aerik(a)thesylvans.com To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Nasty spambot - any ideas? I've got some nasty vandal spamming my wiki using what appear to be random IP addresses that don't seem to be proxies through vanilla ports (tried a couple of simple proxy checker scripts I found, only one out of a dozen or so IPs proxied on port 80 or 8080), so I locked it down and required users to be logged in to edit. This stopped him for awhile, but it looks like he's back now, with a vengeance (http://www.wikidweb.com/wiki/Special:Recentchanges). His purpose boggles the mind, as it appears to be completely vandalous. He's not even posting urls. However, it's very destructive. Anybody got any ideas? I can only think of two: implement a captcha for every edit or require validated emails for user login. Any other suggestions would be great. Thanks, Aerik _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l