Re: [Phpwiki-talk] More spam filtering

[Joel U. <uck...@el...>]

> 
> If you had my wiki, you would not say that. I'm getting killed. I even 
> had to close the wiki, and now they are creating accounts to do it from 
> the inside. VERY soon (like next day or so) I will have to implement 
> filterlists.

Can you tell how the spammers are doing it? If it's being done by a bot,
then at least we can keep doing things to confuse it. But if it's become
cost-effective for spammers to spam wikis by hand, then the game is over
and we've lost. 
 
> 
> >Only a global filterlist would help here. mediawiki is also
> >looking into this. We will see.
> >  
> >
> 
> The "revert" button would be good too, but I am still at 1.3.9, and am 
> afraid of the amount of effort it would take to get the revert button 
> integrated.

I can say that using the Revert button is far better than manually reverting
spammed pages; however, it wouldn't take much additional spamming to make
using the Revert button unbearably time-consuming as well.

Most of the spam I see on my wikis now involves putting the same single link
on multiple pages, not multiple links on single pages. Reverting is much more
efficient in the latter case than in the former.

-- 
J.