From: Reini U. <rei...@gm...> - 2005-10-12 05:43:55
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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/ > -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ |