Re: [gobolinux-devel] wiki spam

2007-08-14 Thread Nick Matteo
On 8/13/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What sort of regexes are they? Can we block edits adding more than a > number of links at one time, say 5? In perl, I think that's > (http://.*){6,} - If we can combine this with a sleep(20) in the save > routine, that would make it slower for spamm

Re: [gobolinux-devel] wiki spam

2007-08-13 Thread hisham . hm
Hi, Just to add another minor data point to the discussion, looking at the wiki users list it seems to me that there's a lot of random-looking accounts there that look spambot-generated. http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/Special:Listusers -- Hisham On 8/13/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Nic

Re: [gobolinux-devel] wiki spam

2007-08-13 Thread MJ Ray
"Nick Matteo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/12/07, MLA-Gobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having just edited several pages with spam, it seems as though every one > > is just a massive collection of links. That seems pretty easy to test for. > > There is already a system in place to block

Re: [gobolinux-devel] wiki spam

2007-08-12 Thread Nick Matteo
On 8/12/07, MLA-Gobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 12 August 2007 16:39, MJ Ray wrote: > > I'd suggest rate-limits, heuristic checks and other things from > > http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2006-January/0128-tw.html > Having just edited several pages with spam, it seems

Re: [gobolinux-devel] wiki spam

2007-08-12 Thread MLA-Gobo
On Sunday 12 August 2007 16:39, MJ Ray wrote: > I'd suggest rate-limits, heuristic checks and other things from > http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2006-January/0128-tw.html Having just edited several pages with spam, it seems as though every one is just a massive collection of lin

Re: [gobolinux-devel] wiki spam

2007-08-12 Thread MJ Ray
mpb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be more willing to monitor the wiki if some anti-spam barrier > (such as reCAPTCHA) were in place. CAPTCHAs are not anti-spam. Please read the W3C report on this issue: http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest#security I'd suggest rate-limits, heuristic checks and

Re: [gobolinux-devel] wiki spam

2007-08-11 Thread mpb
Hi, > Went through those pages and deleted all but two, User:Unknown and > Talk:GoboLinux_Embedded, as those, if spam, were unharmful. I also took a > brief look at history and restored some edits. There might still be more spam. > Someone more should probably be given patrolling rights and patrol

Re: [gobolinux-devel] wiki spam

2007-08-11 Thread Jonas Karlsson
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:01:27 +0200, jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello all, > > these pages appear to be added by spam bots, could someone with delete rights > remove them > > http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/Talk:Building_a_custom_GoboLinux_LiveCD/ > http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/Guestbook/Guestbook

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Wiki spam

2006-07-28 Thread Dan
Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd also like to find some open-source code I can incorporate to require image verification to edit from any given IP address, with about a week timeout. Image verification? You mean one of those eye test things? Please don't. I failed one of those four times

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Wiki spam

2006-07-28 Thread Leandro Motta Barros
On 7/28/06, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Let me know if there are any objections to that plan, or if you have any better ideas. The OpenSceneGraph (http://www.openscenegraph.org) simply uses a password-protected wiki, with a single password that "everybody in the community knows". This

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Wiki spam

2006-07-28 Thread MJ Ray
Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd also like to find some open-source code I can incorporate to > require image verification to edit from any given IP address, with > about a week timeout. Image verification? You mean one of those eye test things? Please don't. I failed one of those four

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Wiki spam

2006-07-28 Thread Dan
On 7/25/06, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have an objection to me permanently banning IP addresses that spam the wiki? No. I've seen today the "latest changes" in the wiki and it was sad to see that many of them were related to spam. A lot of the spammers' effort seems to be focu

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Wiki spam

2006-07-25 Thread Lucas C. Villa Real
On 7/25/06, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have an objection to me permanently banning IP addresses that spam the wiki? No. I've seen today the "latest changes" in the wiki and it was sad to see that many of them were related to spam. -- Lucas powered by /dev/dsp __