On Sunday 02 November 2008, 23:06:05, Richard Fairhurst did write: > Tom Hughes wrote: > > > A wiki admin can delete it properly, and block the account. >
I guess that would involve nasty backdoor business in the database. Probably best to start working within the Mediawiki app, I reckon. I remember when Wikipedia announced that they were adding rel="nofollow" attributes to all external links to deter spammers. That's because $POPULAR_SEARCH_ENGINE honours it. Not sure if it had the desired effect. Relies on spammers knowing this and caring/bothering (in our case). > Hokay. I guess what I'm trying to ask is whether there's a procedure > (e.g. flagging spam on a wiki page, or category, which several people > can follow) which might reduce the inevitably OSM tendency for "the > way to get something fixed is to mail TomH". I'm trying to be > considerate. ;) > Wikibots, possibly assisted by user-contributed flags. Check out which bots Wikipedia use. I think they are open sourced and even have articles! (Sorry, it's too late to research this better.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Status Perhaps you could name the first bot in Tom's honour? ;~) Good luck. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
