Comments on: Wiki spamroaches http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/10/06/wiki-spamroaches/ just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:18:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carl http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/10/06/wiki-spamroaches/#comment-80228 Carl Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 447785016#comment-80228 PMWiki has a nice option, where all external URLs have to be whitelisted by someone with an administrator password. The whitelisting process itself is as simple as clicking a link and entering a password, which is convenient. I don't know if it will work for your wikis (the approach doesn't really scale unless you have enough trusted users, of course), but for small personal use wikis, it's great. PMWiki has a nice option, where all external URLs have to be whitelisted by someone with an administrator password. The whitelisting process itself is as simple as clicking a link and entering a password, which is convenient. I don’t know if it will work for your wikis (the approach doesn’t really scale unless you have enough trusted users, of course), but for small personal use wikis, it’s great.

]]> By: D'Arcy http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/10/06/wiki-spamroaches/#comment-80229 D'Arcy Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 447785016#comment-80229 Thanks, Carl. Both of the wikis I've been delousing are running MediaWiki - which apparently only has IP and Username blacklist banning, and some regex matching in urls (but that isn't as easy to manage as Spam Karma 2 or Referrer karma for WP) Thanks, Carl. Both of the wikis I’ve been delousing are running MediaWiki – which apparently only has IP and Username blacklist banning, and some regex matching in urls (but that isn’t as easy to manage as Spam Karma 2 or Referrer karma for WP)

]]> By: halz http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/10/06/wiki-spamroaches/#comment-81991 halz Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 447785016#comment-81991 <p><em>"They're just smart enough to be able to switch or spoof IP addresses to get around the blocks and bans, but not quite smart enough to realize that I won't let them win."</em></p><p>They are also not quite smart enough to realise that spamming mediawiki is mostly acheiving nothing! mediawiki installations by default stick rel=nofollow on all external links, meaning they have no effect upon search engine rankings. Spammers are too stupid to pay any attention to that though *sigh* </p> "They're just smart enough to be able to switch or spoof IP addresses to get around the blocks and bans, but not quite smart enough to realize that I won't let them win."

They are also not quite smart enough to realise that spamming mediawiki is mostly acheiving nothing! mediawiki installations by default stick rel=nofollow on all external links, meaning they have no effect upon search engine rankings. Spammers are too stupid to pay any attention to that though *sigh*

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