On 07/30/2012 05:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:03:49 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgt...@chello.nl>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am willing to do administrator tasks.
>>
>>> 4. ReCAPTCHA enabled for 'edits adding new, unrecognized external
>>> links' - which is all of the spam.
>>
>> This is already enabled.
>
> The HaskellWiki is still flooded with spam; we should take some measure to
> reduce the stream severely. Most spam seems to be created
> (semi-)automated; the pages do not contain links, the usernames end with
> two digits, most of the time. Some cures I have thought up:
>
There are two (easy) things that will make a huge dent in the automated
stuff.
1. Add a fake field, hidden through CSS, labeled something like "You
must leave this field blank to submit the form" (for non-visual
browsers). Put it on every page with a submit button. If it isn't
empty, don't process the submission. You can give it a /name/ that
sounds tempting, though.
2. Force previews. If the bots are targeted at your wiki software and
you modify it to preview all submissions, the bots will stop
working.
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