Not sure how much of this is already known, but thought I'd mention it just in case...
Both Wikimedia and chongqed.org maintain a spam domain blacklist: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist http://blacklist.chongqed.org/ And there is Wikimedia extension that requires users to pass a captcha to make edits, but it only works with Wikimedia 1.6+: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit (I've never made an edit to the Haskell wiki, so for all I know there might be a captcha system in place already). Again, sorry if this is already common knowledge. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus < [email protected]> wrote: > Ashley Yakeley wrote: > > There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have > > been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of > > accounts to evade individual account blocks. > > > > To combat this, I have > > > > 1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits; > > 2. switched off account creation; > > 3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts. > > > > This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to > > edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account > > creation. > > Maybe it could help to restrict the account creation rate per IP? For > example, every IP may only create one account per 12 hours. > > > Regards, > apfelmus > > -- > http://apfelmus.nfshost.com > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell >
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