[TriLUG] Another idea for triwiki

[Rick DeNatale]

On 8/17/05, Joseph Tate <dragonstrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ed, mediawiki is a temporary measure until a real wiki is implemented.
>  I hope to do this within the next few weeks.  We've already had to
> kill a number of wiki spams though.
> 
> On 8/17/05, Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > http://www.trilug.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but are you *certain* that MediaWiki is
> > the best choice for a public-facing wiki site?
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I've admin-ed a few public-facing wikis and all
> > but one of them was found by "wiki spammers" and quickly devolved into a
> > battleground for wiki-spam or whatever you want to call all those nearly
> > unintelligible "v1Agra" and other messages that blossomed into thousands
> > of lines on dozens of new pages.  Its a total shame.  And the wikis
> > became such a mess that we abandoned them or locked them away with
> > passwords.
> >
> > So, have you seen:
> >
> >   http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/WikiEngineComparison
> >   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software
> >   http://wikifeatures.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/WikiEngine
> >
> > and noticed that most modern wikis now support some kind of
> > authentication, ACLs, page-locking, and/or other permissions?  And
> > notice that MediaWiki, while it is a *very* nice-looking and widely-used
> > wiki engine, is one of the few that (almost) totally lacks this
> > important (I would say crucial) feature?
> >
> > Ed
> >
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There is actually a quite effective extension to mediawiki which traps
wikispam by regexes on the urls  the spammers try to "publicize." 
Wikipedia maintains a list of urls with which they've been spammed,
and there is a site chongqed.org which maintains a more extensive
list, albeit not in exactly the form which the mediawiki extension
uses.

I've implemented this on my mediawiki installation and it has pretty
much put a stop to wikispam for me.  I'd mentioned this to Tanner
several months ago.

Here's the article about it on mediawiki:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension

I contributed the section about how to mung the chongqed wikispam
blacklist into what the  mediawiki extension wants, it's a pretty
simple grep.

I've also made my own functional extensions to add the ability to
nominate spam monitor email addresses who get notified if someone
trips the trap.