Andreas Schwarz wrote:
Ezra Zygmuntowicz schrieb:I agree that the wiki needs something to happen to make it stand up to the massive amount of spam it gets.It's actually quite simple: create a regex filter for words like "x anax", "l oans", "p harmacy", that will keep out 99% of the spam. The rest is easy to deal with.
I saved a copy of all the spam I removed earlier today; many pages had the same dating-related links. A new page (liming) was full of links and Chinese text (a little of the text was English, containing items like "Water jet cutting machine" and "CNC Router"). One page had spam about debt consolidation, a couple just had brief messages of the "brilliant site" variety, and none (for a change) related to pharmaceuticals or porn.
Blocking specific words is only partly effective, and can interfere with legitimate content. There is some regex-based blocking on the Rails wiki, and it has been reasonably effective in blocking patterns used to hide links. On the other hand, I was forced to edit one page in order to roll it back because the wiki now blocks mail.ru email addresses, and the original page content had a legitimate one.
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