120 pages is about a 120 times what I have done ;)... I agree though that manual cleanup from the client interface is a pain. I am ignorant as to who manages the wiki server, but I would be happy to help in any capacity to work on getting the verification step going to curb further spamming. I am going to also be evaluating StikiPad as soon as it is released. Maybe it presents a possible alternative.
All of that aside the Wiki is an important part of the Rails community and it is where I found answers to many questions that I had. Keeping it free of spam and offering the most relevant information is key so I think you have raised a very important issue.
~ Ben
On 1/16/06, Justin Forder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ben Reubenstien wrote:
> Hi Justin ~
>
> The cleaning of the Wiki is appreciated by the entire community.
> Script.aculo.us < http://Script.aculo.us> recently had some much more
> obtrusive editing with entire articles being removed and replaced with
> gambling ads. They have implemented a verification field to slow down
> the input of the spam using their stikipad system. I know the Rails
> wiki is based on instiki, but after a quick glance it did not look like
> this is a current feature. I don't think it would be too hard to
> implement. A strategy of stopping this at the source would obviously be
> preferred to manual clean up.
>
> Thx again,
Ben, I can't claim to have given any service to the community, because I
only cleaned about 120 pages, and then found there were around 800 more
(at least) that needed sorting out. It's also the case that previous
versions of the spammed pages contain spam. It would be good to have
clean history, as well as clean pages.
I'm coming round to the view that removing the spam through the normal
Wiki interface is not the right approach - it just generates more
versions on top of a corrupt history.
regards
Justin
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