WikiIndex:Anti-spam measures: Difference between revisions

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Please use [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension SpamBlacklist extension] ! [[User:Marc|Marc]] 08:18, 17 July 2006 (EDT)

 

==MediaWiki==

*The [[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|admins]] at [[This Might Be A Wiki]] have a bot crawl the wiki constantly searching for spam and automatically blocks offenders.  I'm not sure how they got it to do that, but it seems to have a low rate of false positives. &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 15:02, 27 Mar 2006 (EST)

*WikiIndex is being overwhelmed by spam bots. Please install the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Asirra Asirra extension] to stop this.

==OddMuse==

==PhpWiki==

Spammers regularly targetted [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Old_Liberapedia Old Liberapedia], (now no longer a wiki) and the Wiki had out of date software.  [[Sysop]]s deleted articles that were entirely spam and blocked spammers.  Ordinary users replaced spam with delete templates and aleted sysops.  Spam in good articles was reverted.  Over about 2 months spammers decided targeting Liberapedia wasn't worthwhile.  Spam reduced to a trickle.  New [[Liberapedia]] (Currently online) has better software and should be less vulnerable. If humans guard their Wiki systematically this helps even with bad software.  [[Vandal]]s were a regular problem in Old Liberapedia and are less easily detered.

As Wikiindex has grown spammers have started spamming this wiki and it's becoming annoying.  [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] has started replacing spam with the message below.  Afterwards the page is protected so the spammer can't do anything about this message which they don't want potential customers to read.  See [[Opportunityreview]]  

Specific spam was also targeted.  For example when a spammer advertised garden ornaments the page was modified to show that such products are considered Kitsch.  A link to the Wikipedia article on  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch Kitsch] gave readers the chance to look at a beautiful example of a Kitschy garden gnome.  See [[User talk:Susy Lunardi]].

::I've come to the conclusion that even good editors occasionally accidentally make bad edits, such as page-blanking good pages. What I really want is a spam filter that can tell the difference between "good edits" vs "bad edits". Alas, that seems far more difficult than distinguishing between "editors who know a password" and "editors who don't know any password". --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 12:42, 16 March 2009 (EDT)

::''"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago "The Gulag Archipelago"] (1973)''. --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 23:06, 18 March 2009 (EDT)

::: Well - it would be good for me to link it! [http://www.archive.org/details/3_sa_t1_15h_3-Shah here]. ~~ [[MarkDilley]]

Please install the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Asirra Asirra extension] to stop this. --[[User:Bachsau|Bachsau]] 00:08, 27 June 2012 (PDT)

:I don't think we are being "overwhelmed" per se, spam pages tend to be deleted by me or other admins fairly quickly. That being said, Asirra is the most interesting anti-spam extensions I've ever seen. It won't make us immune (see [[Referata]] which has this extension installed fighting spambots [http://www.referata.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges here]) but it it might reduce spam. '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]'''  27 June 2012

::::WikiIndex is nowhere ''near'' being "overwhelmed" by spam bots; it's &mdash; unfortunately &mdash; standard spambot activity. Unlike some wikis out there, WikiIndex has active admins and therefore the best the spambots can do is submit a spam page which stays up for a couple hours until it's deleted by an admin.

::::That being said, WikiIndex is once again running an outdated, unsupported release of MediaWiki and not using any other anti-spam extensions than ConfirmEdit and SpamBlacklist. Installing [[mw:Extension:SimpleAntiSpam|the SimpleAntiSpam extension]], and preferrably customizing the MediaWiki:Simpleantispam-label message (I have a feeling that spambots know what text to expect and therefore can skip this trap easily), would most likely help a bit...but in time an all-in-one solution, like Phalanx, should be deployed. Phalanx is an anti-spam extension that combines the features of [[mw:Extension:SpamRegex]], [[mw:Extension:RegexBlock]], [[mw:Extension:TitleBlacklist]], [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist]] into one and even adds some additional features. It needs to be generalized a bit to work on more standard MediaWikis, as it was written with a wiki farm setup in mind.

::::There's also the [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter|AbuseFilter extension]], which allows privileged users (administrators) to define certain rules, and if an edit matches one of these rules, it could be tagged as suspicious, or you could even prevent the submission of the edit and block the user submitting it. It's enabled on all Wikimedia wikis and plenty of other wikis (though again, I'm not sure if a 1.17-compatible version exists and/or how stable & feature-rich such a version would be). --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] 08:53, 27 June 2012 (PDT)