Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Wiki spam, an emerging trend?

[Carsten K. <car...@us...>]

On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 01:54  pm, Neale Pickett wrote:

> I got some spam on my wiki last night :<  It appears this fellow is  
> going
> through google to find PHPWiki-rendered pages, and inserting his little
> advertisement.  You can see the result here:
>
>   http://wiki.woozle.org/BuyingaNewComputer?action=diff&version=5
>
> Sure, it was easy to take out, but when someone writes a program to do
> this automatically, I guess we're all going to have to require
> authentication for edits, or spend large chunks of time removing ads.
>
>
> Weblog entry point:
>
>   wiki.woozle.org 202.156.2.138 - - [09/Nov/2003:00:00:05 -0800] "GET  
> /BuyingaNewComputer HTTP/1.1" 200 16099  
> "http://www.google.com.sg/ 
> search?q=computer+Page+Execution+took++Edit&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF- 
> 8&start=10&sa=N" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;  
> .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
>
>
> Neale
> (Please Cc me in replies)

Hi Neale,

This does indeed sound like a very disturbing trend, thanks for the  
heads-up.

Have you tried this setting in index.php? This might trip-up or at  
least slow down any automatic WikiSpamScripts, by forcing a (BOGO- or  
WikiWord- user-name) login first:

if (!defined('ALLOW_BOGO_LOGIN')) define('ALLOW_BOGO_LOGIN', true);
if (!defined('REQUIRE_SIGNIN_BEFORE_EDIT'))  
define('REQUIRE_SIGNIN_BEFORE_EDIT', true);


Maybe it would be a good idea to set these as the defaults in index.php  
for the next release? Any thoughts?


Carsten