Thread: [TuxKart-devel] Wiki has been spammed

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I don't quite understand how public wikis can prevent this sort of
thing.

	James

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:53:29 +0100, James Gregory <jr...@ds...> wrote:
> I don't quite understand how public wikis can prevent this sort of
> thing.

Only by having people regularily check for updates to the wiki and
deleting spam. It's probably also possible to ban by IP.

-- 
Ryan

Em Ter=E7a, 26 de Outubro de 2004 21:28, o Ryan Flegel escreveu:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:53:29 +0100, James Gregory <jr...@ds...> wro=
te:
> > I don't quite understand how public wikis can prevent this sort of
> > thing.
>
> Only by having people regularily check for updates to the wiki and
> deleting spam. It's probably also possible to ban by IP.

 I was going to suggest the IP ban, but there is a cons about it. In Portug=
al,=20
a lot of ISP use transparent proxies and so a lot of different people have=
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the same IP. This would punish a lot of innocent folks.
 Also, IPs are usually dynamic, so you would ban one, but, next connection,=
 he=20
would have another.

 I guess that if this starts happening a lot "privatizing" the wiki would b=
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the best thing. Unless someone doesn't mind to do the dirty job of doing=20
regularly checks for spam.

Cheers,
 Ricardo
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
in reading it at all.
		-- Oscar Wilde

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:28 -0600, Ryan Flegel wrote:
> Only by having people regularily check for updates to the wiki and
> deleting spam. It's probably also possible to ban by IP.

Or do it the easy way and have a user/pass based wiki.  I don't envisage
many spammers applying to the mailing list for passwords.
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <ch...@ve...>
Online @ http://charlie.vexico.com

James Gregory wrote:
> I don't quite understand how public wikis can prevent this sort of
> thing.

Requiring people to sign in before they can post would help - but not
much.

The general idea is that on large Wiki's, there are a lot of people
looking at the content - and that kind of junk disappears pretty quickly.

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-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
GCS d-- s:+ a+ C++++$ UL+++$ P--- L++++$ E--- W+++ N o+ K? w--- !O M-
V-- PS++ PE- Y-- PGP-- t+ 5 X R+++ tv b++ DI++ D G+ e++ h--(-) r+++ y++++
-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

You already have to sign in at the moment. Let's just hope that this won't 
happen again soon. Otherwise I might change it to registration by mail but 
I'd really hate to do that...

Greetings,
 	Matze

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Steve Baker wrote:

> James Gregory wrote:
>> I don't quite understand how public wikis can prevent this sort of
>> thing.
>
> Requiring people to sign in before they can post would help - but not
> much.
>
> The general idea is that on large Wiki's, there are a lot of people
> looking at the content - and that kind of junk disappears pretty quickly.
>
> ---------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------
> HomeEmail: <sjb...@ai...>    WorkEmail: <sj...@li...>
> HomePage : http://www.sjbaker.org
> Projects : http://plib.sf.net    http://tuxaqfh.sf.net
>           http://tuxkart.sf.net http://prettypoly.sf.net
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> GCS d-- s:+ a+ C++++$ UL+++$ P--- L++++$ E--- W+++ N o+ K? w--- !O M-
> V-- PS++ PE- Y-- PGP-- t+ 5 X R+++ tv b++ DI++ D G+ e++ h--(-) r+++ y++++
> -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
>
>
>
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On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:38 +0200, Matze Braun wrote:
> You already have to sign in at the moment. Let's just hope that this won't 
> happen again soon. Otherwise I might change it to registration by mail but 
> I'd really hate to do that...

Why?  It's not like it's a huge inconvenience for genuine contributors.
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <ch...@ve...>
Online @ http://charlie.vexico.com