Re: [Phpwiki-talk] More spam filtering

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

BTW: I just forgot

With the new revert button it's also very easy to get rid of thinks like th=
at.
You have to be admin or the ACL remove rights.

On 10/12/05, Reini Urban <rei...@gm...> wrote:
> 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 exampl=
e,
> >
> > http://www.wikilens.org/wiki.php/RequestedFeatures?action=3DPageHistory=
&version=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 wik=
i
> > to anonymous edits again. :(
> --
> Reini Urban
> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
>


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