Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Protecting against google rank spam...

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

electron schrieb:
> I like the redirect idea. Plugin here we come....

Well, I'm not convinced, since the backbutton will break.
Maybe a list of registered external links will make sense.

> It might also be an idea for anonymous edits to have to be approved by a
> registered user before making the current version of a page. 

User approval? Not a bad idea.

I'm just doing the gForge.org integration so that they can use phpwiki 
as plugin. They have such an approval scheme.
FYI: gForge is the software which runs behind sourceforge.net.

> That's not in the spirit of wiki, but this next idea might be:
> 
> Expanding on that idea: Based on referrer or user agent, we show a version
> of the page that was last edited by a real user to the bot and leave the
> current version as it is to regular browsers.
> 
> Any phpwikis get spammed recently?

Not automatically yet. Just some trial sandbox spam with lots of links.

I guess they just try if an automatic phpwiki spam-pester will make 
sense in terms of google ranks.
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