[sword-devel] wiki vandalism

[DM Smith]

I've fixed all the spam I could find. Turns out that one page is used 
almost daily as a "Joke of the Day". Very vulgar. I'll keep an eye on it 
for a while.

Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>         <http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Frontends:BibleCS>
>
>
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