wiki spam problem is MUCH worse, actually

[mail at catsnest.co.uk]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Jonathan Aquilina
<eagles051387 at gmail.com> wrote:
> arent there CAPTCHA's that prevent spam bots from getting in, granted
> that it might be a user who posts the links
>

Google for "CAPTCHA solving" or "CAPTCHA farmers", they even have
automated API's
Add to that things like onetime email address and even things like the
"can not post until clicks a link" checks are useless.
So having a community wiki and being spam free is not an automated
process it requires a lot of manual work.

So I'm sure the admins would like any help they can get from the community

Ritchie,
--
<-- http://23.me.uk/2 -->
<--Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.  -->
> On 04/08/2011 23:09, mail at catsnest.co.uk wrote:
>> Humm it is of course a community wiki so We could delete the spam links.
>> We don't have permissions to delete pages of course.
>>
>> This is a problem with most Wiki's I admin a medium sized wiki and
>> have to delete spam pages every day.
>>
>>
>> Ritchie
>> --
>> <-- http://23.me.uk/2 -->
>> <--Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.  -->
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Michael Friedrich
>> <michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at>  wrote:
>>> Keith Erekson wrote:
>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>>
>>>> In typical Mediawiki fashion... looks like user registration has been
>>>> left on, resulting in 1000+ users:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&limit=500
>>>>
>>>> Which leads to the wiki being used to host all *sorts* of interesting
>>>> spam:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedPages&limit=500&offset=0
>>>>
>>>> ;-)
>>> probably the admins are busy changing wikipedia articles instead,
>>> removing the bad forks shinken and icinga from the content.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nagios&action=history
>>> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nagios&action=history
>>>
>>>> - --
>>>>
>>>> Keith Erekson
>>>> Systems Engineer
>>>> Digirati Consulting
>>>> erekson at digiraticonsulting.com
>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)
>>>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
>>>>
>>>> iEYEARECAAYFAk46uBMACgkQNYHf3mzWKbH8wQCdEuYk3k+rc8+ghpGDCOWMpVgf
>>>> NGUAnA3l9mhXqhzYkgA/B/9/jcz9x91C
>>>> =pDHc
>>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA
>>>> The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts.
>>>> Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies.
>>>> Sessions, hands-on labs, demos&    much more. Register early&    save!
>>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Nagios-users mailing list
>>>> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
>>>> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue.
>>>> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> DI (FH) Michael Friedrich
>>>
>>> Vienna University Computer Center
>>> Universitaetsstrasse 7 A-1010 Vienna, Austria
>>>
>>> email:  michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at
>>> phone:  +43 1 4277 14359
>>> mobile: +43 664 60277 14359
>>> fax:    +43 1 4277 14338
>>> web:    http://www.univie.ac.at/zid
>>>         http://www.aco.net
>>>
>>> Icinga Core&    IDOUtils Developer
>>> http://www.icinga.org
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA
>>> The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts.
>>> Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies.
>>> Sessions, hands-on labs, demos&  much more. Register early&  save!
>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Nagios-users mailing list
>>> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
>>> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue.
>>> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
>>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA
>> The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts.
>> Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies.
>> Sessions, hands-on labs, demos&  much more. Register early&  save!
>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1
>> _______________________________________________
>> Nagios-users mailing list
>> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
>> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue.
>> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA
> The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts.
> Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies.
> Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save!
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1
> _______________________________________________
> Nagios-users mailing list
> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue.
> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
>

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA
The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. 
Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies.
Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save!
http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null