[Cialug] wiki spammed

[D. Joe Anderson]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 08:00:44PM -0500, Academician Kula wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 05:22:15PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> > The wiki has been spammed.
> > Maybe we need to start some sort of accounts for editing the wiki?
> > 
> > What does our wiki expert think?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Can't claim to be the wiki expert, but in my experience if you
> make accounts required to edit the wiki but allow anyone to
> create accounts, you won't totally get rid of wiki spam. I've 
> got a couple of wikis that kept getting spam even after 
> requiring account. 

But would you say that it's knocked it back at least to a more
managable rate thus far?


The wiki model has always had an element to it of dealing with
spam after the fact via reversion rather than preventing it from
happening in the first place.  

The problem comes when the influx of spam overloads the
reversion process (whether by too few legitimate editors to see
the spam and do the reversions, or the wiki engine not
supporting easy reversions...).

The moinmoin community has some spam filtering ideas and tools,
see eg

http://moinmoin/wikiwikiweb.de/AntiSpamGlobalSolution

I haven't gotten up to speed enough (<-- that there's my "I am
not a wiki expert, either" disclaimer) to try to implement it
though.

-- 
Joe