On Tuesday 26 April 2011 17:00:27 A.M. Kuchling wrote: > > If that's so, I don't know what can be done about this, other than > making the textchas harder or just restricting editing of the Jython > wiki to a limited list of people, which might be OK if the Jython > community agrees -- not many people edit the wiki.
I've seen this kind of spamming on other Wikis, but banning the users and blacklisting their sites keeps the spamming down somewhat. This is, after all, nothing like some really aggressive spamming I saw once where there would be tens of pages created or changed per day, all involving content containing strings of hexadecimal- or base64-like values. On occasions like this, I wish address-blocking were more readily pursuable with Moin, since the spamming appears to involve the same IP address, and I've seen edits from hosted servers being used for spamming. But maybe better textchas might be the answer - the Python Wiki seems to manage just fine on that basis. > We could add rel=nofollow to the links to deny the spammers pagerank, > but are they sophisticated enough to notice? (They certainly aren't > noticing that we delete pages pretty quickly.) I don't think spammers care: they create new pages that aren't really linked to from the rest of the site (apart from via RecentChanges and other dynamic pages/content); it's all an attempt to feed search engines in some way, whether there's an actual effect or not. As long as they can create pages on a site, they'll just do it as a write-only activity. Paul _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
