[Phpwiki-talk] 1.3.10 and Apache 2, small projects, wiki spam

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

1. Is there something special I need to to do get 1.3.10 working with Apache 2
and PHP 4.3? I haven't been able to get the wiki to create a new page
db, even.

2. I've been thinking a bit about wiki spam lately, mostly because a wiki
that I host has been getting blasted almost daily for a while now. While
we very much want to stop the spam, we don't want to require users to login
because that would discourage casual editing. What I've noticed is that
virtually all of the spam we see involves a great number of links being added
to a page, say 100+. On the other hand, I can't think of a time when I've
added more than 10 links to a page in a single edit. This suggests that
rejecting (or holding for approval) edits which increase a page's link count
by more than 10 links would nearly eliminate the spam that lands on this
particular wiki.

Most of the spam I see on my wiki is in Chinese, while the rest of the wiki
is mostly English. If I just rejected any edits which introduced numerous
Chinese characters, that also would do the trick in my case.

However, I suspect that not all wiki spam is like this, and if my particular
batch of spammers changed their tactics then such a check would be ineffective.
Another thing which occurred to me is doing an RBL check on the IP of the
editing host. This stops tons of email spam at the door; I have a hunch that
similar results could be achieved using this for a wiki.

Conclusion: While I doubt that there is a single solution that would work
well for everyone, I think that everyone could probably find a solution which
works for them. Hence, it would be useful to have the edit function call a
configurable edit validator, one where the wiki admin could easily supply
whatever tests he wants applied to edits.

Is there already something like this? If not, does anyone else like this
idea?

3. Small projects: Are there any small projects that the developers more
regular than myself want done? I expect to have a bit of time this week
and I have wiki on the brain again.