On 8/17/05, Joseph Tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed, mediawiki is a temporary measure until a real wiki is implemented. > I hope to do this within the next few weeks. We've already had to > kill a number of wiki spams though. > > On 8/17/05, Ed Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > http://www.trilug.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but are you *certain* that MediaWiki is > > the best choice for a public-facing wiki site? > > > > The reason I ask is that I've admin-ed a few public-facing wikis and all > > but one of them was found by "wiki spammers" and quickly devolved into a > > battleground for wiki-spam or whatever you want to call all those nearly > > unintelligible "v1Agra" and other messages that blossomed into thousands > > of lines on dozens of new pages. Its a total shame. And the wikis > > became such a mess that we abandoned them or locked them away with > > passwords. > > > > So, have you seen: > > > > http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/WikiEngineComparison > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software > > http://wikifeatures.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/WikiEngine > > > > and noticed that most modern wikis now support some kind of > > authentication, ACLs, page-locking, and/or other permissions? And > > notice that MediaWiki, while it is a *very* nice-looking and widely-used > > wiki engine, is one of the few that (almost) totally lacks this > > important (I would say crucial) feature? > > > > Ed > > > > -- > > Edward H. Hill III, PhD > > office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. > > Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 > > emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ > > phone: 617-253-0098 > > fax: 617-253-4464 > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > > > -- > Joseph Tate > Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com > Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > There is actually a quite effective extension to mediawiki which traps wikispam by regexes on the urls the spammers try to "publicize." Wikipedia maintains a list of urls with which they've been spammed, and there is a site chongqed.org which maintains a more extensive list, albeit not in exactly the form which the mediawiki extension uses.
I've implemented this on my mediawiki installation and it has pretty much put a stop to wikispam for me. I'd mentioned this to Tanner several months ago. Here's the article about it on mediawiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension I contributed the section about how to mung the chongqed wikispam blacklist into what the mediawiki extension wants, it's a pretty simple grep. I've also made my own functional extensions to add the ability to nominate spam monitor email addresses who get notified if someone trips the trap. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
