Why not in contrib ?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 4:10 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> We’ve suffered some spamming attacks on xwiki.org recently and we’ve put 
> xwiki.org under cloudflare. This should prevent some attacks but it’s not 
> enough and spam is still going through.
>
> I’d like to propose creating a new xwiki-platform-spam module with an API 
> module and a simple implementation using keyword blacklisting.
>
> xwiki-platform-spam
>   |_ xwiki-platform-spam-api
>   |_ xwiki-platform-spam-simple
>
> We could imagine adding an akismet implementation later on: 
> xwiki-platform-spam-akismet
>
> For the simple implementation, I’d like to be able to configure the keywords 
> in xobjects to make it simple to update and have the community helping.
>
> The API would be simple:
>
> @Role
> public interface SpamChecker
> {
>     /**
>      * Checks if the passed content is considered spam or not.
>      *
>      * @param content the content to check
>      * @param parameters a map of parameters that depends on the 
> implementation used. For example this can include the
>      *        IP address of the submitter of the content, its email address, 
> the date of submission, etc
>      * @return true if the content is considered spam or false otherwise
>      */
>     boolean isSpam(Reader content, Map<String, Object> parameters);
> }
>
>
> Then the idea would be to have an EventListener for page save and comment 
> save and go through this API.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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