2009/9/6 Risker <[email protected]>: > 2009/9/6 David Gerard <[email protected]>
>> What could possibly go wrong? >> http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo-tools/115582-wikipedia-linking-tool.html >> If your life is suffering from inadequate levels of stupid (I know! >> Whose doesn't?), that looks like just the forum for you to get a topup >> from. > Amazing how few people realise that we're also perfectly capable of > blacklisting their websites, and will do so without hesitation should a > spambot show up. Heck, we give people a hard time for putting in half a > dozen of the same links. Often they won't test it on Wikipedia itself. The first MediaWiki spambot I heard of was when someone emailed mediawiki-l about their small wiki getting obvious spam and asking for non-laborious ways to deal with it. Very similar spam started showing up on en:wp soon after (and was trivially detectable and blockable). Our semi-automated immune system - that lets us keep as close to "anyone can edit" as we do - is actually incredibly sophisticated and powerful and more than a little frightening. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
