When Richard says "It seems the appropriate thing to do is to leverage that work instead of re-inventing it."
I take that to mean simply installing all the spam-fighting services, extensions, daemons, etc.. that already exist. Or, perhaps, creating a monster bundle with an integrated assortment of spam-fighting tools. I think it's OK to brainstorm new approaches. ________________________________ From: Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 3:56 AM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback. I run a spam/virus filtering email relay for some clients and I agree with most of what Richard says: > Everything that's being discussed has already been done to combat > email spam. It seems the appropriate thing to do is to leverage that > work instead of re-inventing it. There is also Akismet which Wordpress users can use. I'm sure there is a lot of work that has been put into blocking spam in blog comments and email that overlaps. I recently discovered a test wiki I had set up and forgotten about had been overrun with spam and started using it to watch the spammers and record their "work". From these observations, I think I like Jamie Thingelstad's idea (partly because, yes, it would persuade people to make sure their wiki is registered at WikiApiary): On 05/24/2013 07:58 PM, Jamie Thingelstad wrote: > One thought I have had is having WikiApiary use a bot account on > remote wikis that wish to participate to fight spammers, revert > changes, ban them, etc. If you could also collect urls added in reverted edits, it seems like those would be good candidates for a shared blacklist. Mark. -- http://hexmode.com/ Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. -- G.K. Chesterson _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
