For the curious, I didn't get much luck with spamicity, but I just tried to hook up to akismet instead, and it appears to do a very good job. Right now it's just a quick and dirty script that sites on my machine, but if I get the time during the weekend, I'll see if I can turn it into something useful.
On 13 January 2015 at 23:37, troels knak-nielsen <tro...@knak-nielsen.dk> wrote: > Never mind - Googling for `site:github.com solahart` does the trick. > > Oh, I agree Lee, but some times you just need to do the dirty work your > self. I'll see if it's as easy as I just made it sound - probably not, but > well .. > > On 13 January 2015 at 23:31, Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> That's certainly interesting, but is absolutely something Github should >> be doing, not us.... If you want to try it out, though, you can clone the >> wiki, and search for unreachable commits, or google "Github wiki spam" and >> see all the other affected projects and take some content from there... >> maybe in the metadata there is some hint that it is spam… be that bad >> dates/times in the headers, or poor/inactive user profiles, or that the >> committers email address looks like spam, i don't know, but we managed this >> problem by force-pushing the master ref for the affected wikis in the past. >> >> Lee Hambley >> http://lee.hambley.name/ >> +49 (0) 170 298 5667 >> >> On 13 January 2015 at 23:26, troels knak-nielsen <tro...@knak-nielsen.dk> >> wrote: >> >>> I wonder how well it would work to create a job that checks out new >>> commits from the wiki, send them to something like spamicity.info and >>> mails this list if the content looks like spam? >>> >>> Since the offending commits are deleted now, I can't make a quick test - >>> does anyone have the original spam commits and could you perhaps share them >>> somehow? >>> >>> On 13 January 2015 at 22:57, Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I disabled basically every wiki on everything under capistrano/......., >>>> except the ones that have content, which now require repository push access >>>> to modify. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately they are essentially worthless now, it's a massive, >>>> massive disappointment that Github haven't addressed this spam problem at >>>> all. >>>> >>>> Lee Hambley >>>> http://lee.hambley.name/ >>>> +49 (0) 170 298 5667 >>>> >>>> On 13 January 2015 at 22:37, Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Wiki is publicly editable, as a rule I turn wikis off on all my >>>>> projects, but someone (I forget who) petitioned me to re-enable the wiki. >>>>> >>>>> Lee Hambley >>>>> http://lee.hambley.name/ >>>>> +49 (0) 170 298 5667 >>>>> >>>>> On 13 January 2015 at 22:03, <pasqu...@sunyit.edu> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Looking at the Capistrano Documentation GitHub the wiki ( >>>>>> https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano.github.io/wiki) seems to be >>>>>> full of spam. I don‘t see how any of these 30 or so postings are related >>>>>> to >>>>>> the Capistrano project. For example: >>>>>> https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano.github.io/wiki/Home. (note >>>>>> the ending period) and Distributor Solahart Water Heater 081284559855 >>>>>> <https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano.github.io/wiki/Distributor-Solahart-Water-Heater-081284559855> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>>> The commit log lists these four unique emails: >>>>>> Author: servicepemanasairsolahart <godanghu...@gmail.com> >>>>>> Author: solahart promoduo <solahartpromo...@gmail.com> >>>>>> Author: solahartjakarta <tukangsolah...@gmail.com> >>>>>> Author: solahartpromoduo <solahartpromo...@gmail.com> >>>>>> >>>>>> Could an admin have lost his/her SSH keys? 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