[sword-devel] wiki vandalism

[Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp]

I use a fairly excellent tool for preventing spam on my blog called Akismet.
I just looked and there is no plugin for it for MediaWiki. However, there
appears to be a fairly successful anti-spam plugin called Bad Behavior
available that might be worth looking into.

On 5/15/07, DJ Ortley <djortley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Found this:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_Features
>
> Though, if you read the top of that page, it has a comment:
> *This page should be moved<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:MetaProject_to_transfer_content_to_MediaWiki.org>to
> MediaWiki.org <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/>*.
>
> So, expect that it should change.  I found it by googling for 'wikimedia
> spam'
>
> There's also this, which I think might be worth reading:
> http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2571
>
> My personal opinion is that we should err on the side of being more
> restrictive than not.
>
> -DJ
>
>
> On 5/15/07, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > It was recently pointed out on our support list that our wiki is being
> > vandalized.
> >
> > It's kinda disturbing, but there is a bunch of vandalism. Mostly
> > advertizement/spam. It is easy to find by going to recent changes.
> >
> > Here is an offensive example:
> > http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Frontends:BibleCS
> >
> >
> >
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