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Spam
Seems the spambots have finally found this Wiki... I guess this will increase during the next days/weeks, so I'd like to think about how to counter the spamming. The "standard" SpamBlacklist is already in place, so what else can be done?
- Restrict edits to logged in users. However, we've had some contributions by anonymous users already, so this might scare them away. Additionally, spambots seem to be smart enough already to create user accounts.
- More advanced spamfilter. Does one exist? Maybe we could simply add something to SpamBlacklist which checks for numbers with more than, say, 10 digits, and rejects those edits...
- More SysOps to counter spam. This might be a simple short-term solution. Any volunteers? ;-)
Ideas? Opinions?
- "Protect" the usual spam targets (
Main Pageetc.). These pages may not edited by non-admin users, but it helps against a lot of Spam-bots. --MaD 13:13, 30 November 2006 (CET) - After the last spam wave I think it's a good idea to let only registered people edit pages. --MaD 11:09, 24 August 2007 (CEST)
- I second this one. And I don't know how possible it is, but some captcha's on the signup/login screens might help, since some smarter SpamBots seems to be able to register themselves...--Sirmatto 17:41, 27 August 2007 (CEST)
- I realise that only registered people can edit pages now, but I once worked on a wiki that had that set too. A captcha is a good idea. It's only annoying once (as long if it's well made and therefore actually readable by humans; I've seen some horrible Captchas in the past) and it'll stop the bots that register themselves. I'm guessing the script for registering to a MediaWiki wiki is very available to bot-writers out there. The wiki I used to work on is a mass of spam now as they didn't do this. --Retrodice 03:56, 21 March 2009 (CET)
- Seriously a Captcha isn't a bad idea. It'll cut down the spam to a level that's at least a little closer to manageable. It's at a horrific level at the moment, as the recent changes list is completely buried in edits for all sorts of advertisements. If you need help installing it feel free to give me a shout. It's got to the point where it feels almost worthless editing the wiki because it looks like it's abandoned, as it's so hard to find the genuine edits in the history. Retrodice 03:31, 30 August 2009 (CEST)
So is there anyway to mass delete/ban the huge influx of spam into the wiki? I can't seem to find anything that would come close... --Sirmatto 17:09, 11 September 2009 (CEST)
Sorry for your time.... Why i can't see images on this resource?
My Browser is: Opera.
Thank you.
- No idea, I have never used Opera. Maybe Opera can't handle PNG's or something? -Darkstar
