Talk:The Fink Wiki

From the Fink Wiki

Spam getting out of hand?

We've got automated spam-reversion and a few of us are blocking spammish user/IPs, but it's getting a bit crazy. At some point we're gonna have nearly whole /16's added, one rooted /32 proxy box at a time. And it still will be worth it for $spammer since it's all about boosting Google rankings, so spam+despam is two links from the page history page. Sucks, no?

MediaWiki has some configuration controls that can help limit the posting of spam, there are some tweaks to the webserver that can block its usefulness and/or block known-bad net-blocks, and there are third-party wiki extensions. Are any of these worth investigating, or are we happy with the current easy-access but attendant spam problems and manual interventions? DMacks 22:50, 12 December 2005 (GMT)