From: Dan F. <dfr...@cs...> - 2005-10-12 00:16:10
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Folks, This is just to let you know .. The "no more than 20 links" strategy worked fine for a long time. Just in past couple of days, spammers have rediscovered WikiLens with a vengeance, and they are submitting <<20 links (like 5). See, for example, http://www.wikilens.org/wiki.php/RequestedFeatures?action=PageHistory&version=19 I tried adding a verifying param to the URL ("site_token=wikilens1234") in case they were using a script to submit the edits directly, but it was circumvented immediately. It looks like they are finding the "Save" button somehow. I reverted for awhile, but finally got desparate and closed my wiki to anonymous edits! (ALLOW_ANON_EDIT=false. Note it was broken in 1.3.9, which is where we .. well, forked I guess, and it was broken there, so I had to make a quick fix). Any other spam filtering advice is welcome. I'd like to open up the wiki to anonymous edits again. :( Dan |