On Monday 30 September 2013 15:18:19 Domen Kožar wrote: > You don't have spam because nixos.org has pagerank 5, which makes it > attractive to spammers in a way that humans are paid to enter spam links. > > Your site has pagerank of 0. > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Marc Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > Eelco: Have a look at vim-wiki.mawercer.de I have not yet had any spam. > > and if it happens its as easy as git revert. There is *no* password > > protection at all. You just have to use special ?get parameter. > > I know the design is not that pretty, its just a hack so that I don't > > have to type and talk about the same topics again. Maybe its also much > > less popular than nixos.org/wiki ... > > > > I seriously think that bots (or humans?) are specialized on media wiki. > > I think the real fix is using non standard wikis or doing anything > > non-standard, such as protecting login page by htaccess and dummy > > password. > > Something simple such as 'nixonixo' would probably be enough and more > > effective than captchas. If irc knowns about it .. > > > > Me too thinks that its bad to host spam. Additional alternatives such as > > github wiki has been discussed. And they are options, too. > > You can also access those git repositories easily. > > > > The community is strong enough to handle this. We just have to make a > > list of features we want and we must get started. > > > > Some additional discussions took place on this mailinglist earlier. > > How much spam does exist? Click the random page 10 times, then you'll > > know. > > > > click1: Multi-level Marketing Two Schools Of Believed Collide > > click2: Women's Manner Trend Principles To Stay By > > click3: Ageing Tips That Can Help You In The Process > > click4: Meet The Equipment Shop Manager > > click5: Picking out Straightforward Advice For beauty salon insurance > > > > I'm stopping here, you get it, all 5 pages are spam. > > > > I'm protecting against arbitrary spammers by adding a 1x1 px input spam > > bots are likely to fill, but humans miss. Thus if such a field is non > > empty I can disregard the request. > > > > The wiki is one of the weakest parts of this project. > > People spend their time on the libraries, packages and the core instead > > mostly. > > > > Marc Weber > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
If it was common practise for wikis to require user registrations lay a money deposit as security for constructive behaviour the problem would go away overnight. But it isn't, and implementing it would probably be a rather non-trivial task and also raise the bar to entry (due to inconvenience) for new good members too. If there is an effective interface (available to users) I don't mind spending some time tonight deleting spam.. -plc _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
