Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Wiki spam and the future of phpwiki

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

I tried to send this, and Sourceforge bounced it. Now, a week later, let 
me try again.

Dan

YOD,

90% of the code I took from editpage.php in CVS current of PhpWiki, 
thanks to Reini. The 10% was two changes:

1. Modify the end-user error message to say "Sorry, too many links (more 
than ##)" instead of "conflicts".
2. Add a configurable parameter SPAM_MAX_EXTERNAL_LINKS.

Below is an approximate patch to editpage.php. Since we are almost a 
year different from Phpwiki, I cannot guarantee that the patch is 
entirely accurate.

Also, I sent this patch to this list awhile ago. Perhaps I should also 
change it in CVS current?

Dan


(YOD) wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dan Frankowski wrote:
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>>1. Don't allow saving a page that has more than 20 external ("http://") 
>>links. In our code, I modified "20" to be a configurable parameter 
>>SPAM_MAX_EXTERNAL_LINKS. We've been completely spammed as well, and I 
>>believe this will help us a lot. We have a wiki where each legitimate 
>>page only contains a few external links, but spam pages contain tons 
>>(>50 for sure) external links.
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>I'd like to implement this modification. Would you be kind enough to send
>it to me? 
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>I have three working PhpWikis but two (with a progressive
>political orientation) of them I have only open blogging but otherwise
>editing is now turned off due to excessive spamming. I just installed a
>third Wiki to play with and haven't decided yet what to do with it.
>
>I am just waiting to see how long it takes for spam to find the new open 
>Wiki and I suspect it won't be long (g). 
>
>I also want to explore other methods for securing Wiki from spambots 
>(intentional spammers are much easier to deal with) so I have been 
>following these discussions with much interest.
>
>Hank Roth
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