[xwiki-users] removing spam

2009-01-06 Thread Yishay Mor 
My XWiki has recently been hit by spam. I found a discussion of this issue
on:
http://markmail.org/message/yq6kbwyxznk7nezd

However, since my XWiki is on the farm, I don't have programming rights.
Luckily, the spam was localized to specific pages, so I edited those, added
the code below, ran in and deleted to code:
  #set($comments = $doc.getComments())
  #foreach($comment in $comments)
   $doc.removeObject($comment)
  #end
  $doc.save()

But I was thinking, would it be worth adding some generic spam control? Or
at least bulk comment control?
e.g.:
* integrate http://sourceforge.net/projects/akismet-java/
* support captcha for user registration / anonymous comments
* provide an interface in the admin area for selecting multiple comments 
deleting them with one button

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Re: [xwiki-users] removing spam

2009-01-06 Thread Vincent Massol 
Hi Yishay,

On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Yishay Mor wrote:

 My XWiki has recently been hit by spam. I found a discussion of this  
 issue
 on:
 http://markmail.org/message/yq6kbwyxznk7nezd

 However, since my XWiki is on the farm, I don't have programming  
 rights.
 Luckily, the spam was localized to specific pages, so I edited  
 those, added
 the code below, ran in and deleted to code:
  #set($comments = $doc.getComments())
  #foreach($comment in $comments)
   $doc.removeObject($comment)
  #end
  $doc.save()

 But I was thinking, would it be worth adding some generic spam  
 control? Or
 at least bulk comment control?
 e.g.:
 * integrate http://sourceforge.net/projects/akismet-java/
 * support captcha for user registration / anonymous comments
 * provide an interface in the admin area for selecting multiple  
 comments 
 deleting them with one button

Yes I have been thinking about this too.

Several solutions:

* Integrate typepad antispam rather than Akismet: http://antispam.typepad.com/ 
  (it has a more friendly license)
* Use the system I've used on my blog at http://massol.net to allow  
guest users to enter comments
* Implement a captcha (we have it but make it work)

Is someone interested in working on this? The typepad antispam sounds  
the most promising to me.


Thanks
-Vincent
http://xwiki.com
http://massol.net
http://xwiki.org





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