On 20.03.2013 09:44, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 19.03.2013 09:14, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> On 18.03.2013 19:58, Paul Boddie wrote: >>> On Monday 18 March 2013 19:00:37 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: >>>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with >>>>> administrative privileges check that the textcha feature is enabled and >>>>> has been given a set of effective questions? >>>> >>>> You can see that it is enabled by visiting this link: >>>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontPage?action=newaccount >>>> >>>> (make sure you are logged out) >>>> >>>> As for the questions, I'm open to suggestions. >>> >>> I don't think "How many words are in this question?" is really setting the >>> bar >>> very high for spammers. Textcha questions are supposed to retain the >>> context >>> of the site on which they are placed so that bulk spamming cannot just >>> scrape >>> the question and serve it up to someone on some other site. This means that >>> we should be asking Python-related questions, not simple "Are you human?" >>> questions that ceased to be effective about ten years ago. >> >> Reimar is currently running a test on the Jython wiki. He marked >> "http" as bad content, which results in all edits including that >> word to get rejected. >> >> At least on the Jython wiki, this has apparently stopped the spam >> pages from getting created: >> >> http://wiki.python.org/jython/RecentChanges >> >> It's not a permanent solution, though, since it prevents adding >> links to pages. > > The experiment has resulted in the spam being stopped. Unfortunately, > it also prohibited any edits of pages with links on them - even > by regular wiki users. > > I've removed the http again and will add a new set of textchas > for now.
Within a few minutes of removing the "http", the spam started rolling in again. I hope the new textchas will raise the bar a bit. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg PSF Vice Chairman _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
