On Monday 21 September 2009 13:42, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: > > However, the solution with captchas on external urls is not a good > > soution - if a (human) spammer bypasses it, you still have to > > manually check it. Whitelisting/Blacklisting could help automating > > this job (as in MoinMoin). > > Captchas on external URLs is just the default for the reCaptcha > extension. This setting was not explicitly turned on as part of the > anti-SPAM stuff. If this change (turning off the Captcha on external > URLs) works, I'll document it and roll it into the main > LocalSettings.php file - it's a temp change for now until it's > tested. > > Whitelisting/Blacklisting works if you know which URLs to Whitelist > or Blacklist.
So I'd propose to whitelist all known project sites (as *.openoffice.org, oooauthors.org ...) > It's a big manual job either way. Shouldn't be. How many external links are inserted per day/week? All one has to do is to decide whether it's a good or a bad link and to copy it to white resp. black list. Any Admin should be able to accomplish this. We just need to put the appropriate instructions at a visible place. > I've implemented a > regex for blocking certain SPAM word combinations, but this is only > part of the overall solution to keeping the Wiki clean. > > Right now, with the reCaptcha on new user registrations, plus > BadBehavior, and the regex, we seem to be winning the Spam battle : Ok, if it works without problems in its current implementation, then forget all suggestions :-) Nino --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
