Re: [Phpwiki-talk] More spam filtering

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

I don't know what "Revert" does, but if it's just to the previous 
version, that's no good. Sometimes the spammers have changed the page 
multiple revisions before I see it.

Anyway, I don't have time to constantly guard myself, and our community 
is not large. I need something to significantly reduce the amount of 
incoming spam. I closed my site to anonymous edits, but I'm getting 
killed again the last couple of days.

I don't know if it's bots or not. I have to suspect bots. It looks kind 
of like bots.

I am trying to enable a captcha upon login, but my PHP has libgd issues 
at the moment. If that's not enough, I'll try to take the 
captcha-on-edit feature, too.

Right now, I'm in trouble.

Dan

Joel Uckelman wrote:

>>At 18:04 +0200 15/10/05, Joel Uckelman wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>      
>>>
>>My wikis send me an email whenever anyone makes a change, showing the 
>>new page text. Would it be possible to mail out a diff each time a 
>>page is edited, with a link at the bottom to revert to previous?
>>    
>>
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>The current version sends a diff instead of the full page text.
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>This happens in sendPageChangeNotification() in lib/WikiDB.php. All you'd
>need to do is add a line to create the link:
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>$revertlink = WikiURL($this->_pagename, array('action'=>'revert','version'=>$previous), true);
>
>and then make sure that $revertlink ends up in the mail which goes out at
>toward the end of the function.
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