RE: [Phpwiki-talk] phpwiki spam issues

[Philip J. H. <ph...@po...>]

One more thing I just thought of: is there a way to always retrieve the
IP address of the person who edited a page?

When an anonymous user edits a page, you see the IP address in
RecentChanges.  However, if the edit is done by a BogoUser, then you see
the username.

My last big spammer used a BogoUser, so the IP address wasn't
immediately apparent.

It would be nice if the RecentChanges looked like this:

WikiPage - edited by WikiUser - from 192.168.1.2

for example.

I realize you can retrieve the ip address from the web server logs, but
that is cumbersome.

P.

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:12:06 -0500, "Philip J. Hollenback"
<ph...@po...> said:
> I guess what we're seeing is that spammers are finally really starting
> to hit wikis.  Maybe the crackdown on blog comment spam is forcing them
> to move?
> 
> The difficult part of this is that the wiki philosophy is all about the
> freedom for anyone to edit.  That has always freaked a lot of people
> out.  Unfortunately, they now have a good reason to be scared: spammers
> will mess with all your pages!
> 
> Thus, I really think that spam blocking / detection / limiting is THE
> big issue for wikis now.  We're at a critical point: mainstream users
> are starting to wake up to the wiki philosophy.  I just helped my
> non-technical friend set up a wiki for his work (www.dbrig.com).  Wil
> Wheaton just two days ago wondered on his blog if he should set up a
> wiki.  Now is the time for wikis - assuming the spam doesn't drown us
> all.
> 
> I really, really want to open my website www.hollenback.net back up for
> anyone to edit.  Thus it seems like blacklists and captchas are the way
> to go.  I don't want to force people to log in - that drives away the
> majority of potential contributors right away.  However, a unified login
> mechanism such as Typekey might not be so bad.
> 
> As an aside, some people say the majority of wiki spam is coming from
> China (see www.chongqed.com).  However, I see that the spam on wiki
> (until I locked it down) was coming from Russia.  What are other people
> seeing?
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Philip J. Hollenback
ph...@po...
www.hollenback.net