My friend Tim wrote on the subject of defeating cheap labor spammers:
http://www.info-lounge.org/bff
http://www.info-lounge.org/bffHe says blocking IPs from certain countries solves most of it.
Jason
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:38 AM, William Wedler w.wedler@gmail.com wrote:
How about sign up for something called CloudFlare ( http://www.cloudflare.com/)?
It is a content distribution network (CDN) designed to improve site up-time, reduce bandwidth and also stop spammers.
I think it works something like this: Spammers have certain network patterns. If other sites in the CDN identify those spammers, then their patterns can be recognized and other sites in the CDN will be protected. The service is free since everybody in the CDN benefits from more participants.
I have not used it, but it is worth looking into.
-Will
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Angel York aniola@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder how complicated it would be if any user with more than X
legitimate
edits could approve a revision.
I emailed the folks from Local Wiki (thanks, Phillip!) and they suggested looking into Media Wiki's anti-spam measures. Apparently it is popular enough that people write bots for it. The anti-spam page is here. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features The very first thing
it
says is that many of the anti-spam features aren't activated by default,
so
that's promising. Angel
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Dustin @ NBW - Philadelphia PA dustin@neighborhoodbikeworks.org wrote:
I'm not highly in favour of making registration to the wiki wait for moderators approval if there's a way to easily change the current captcha validation. You'll still have the major contributors joining up but I would be afraid that some of the smaller contributers just wouldn't bother.
Agreed -- I feel like 50% of our users log in once to say, change the hours for their co-op, and it would take too much effort for them to follow through on registration. Maybe this is where the "Approved Revs" extension could help us?
D.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Godwin ! goodgodwin@hotmail.com
wrote:
Here here. I would be really nice to have more than just the wiki
there
eventually but currently that's really the only thing offered and it seems outside most people's capacity for the time being to do much more with it. I'm not highly in favour of making registration to the wiki wait for moderators approval if there's a way to easily change the current captcha validation. You'll still have the major contributors joining up but I would be afraid that some of the smaller contributers just wouldn't bother. .g
From: samh@samh.net Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:12:24 -0600 To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike Collective Wiki is under attack and
we
need your help.
While we're talking about bikecollective.org changes, how about making the wiki the default landing page for the site?
I second that motion.
- Sam
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