Re: [Phpwiki-talk] More spam filtering

[Reini U. <rei...@gm...>]

This kind of five-casino-url spam (even with a nice announce) is
imho not that annoying than hundreds of links making the text
effectively unreadable.

Only a global filterlist would help here. mediawiki is also
looking into this. We will see.

On 10/12/05, Dan Frankowski <dfr...@cs...> wrote:
> 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=3DPageHistory&v=
ersion=3D19
>
> I tried adding a verifying param to the URL ("site_token=3Dwikilens1234")
> 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=3Dfalse. 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. :(
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Reini Urban
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