[ODE] spam on wiki area page?

[Belorion]

There has been extensive discussion of Wiki Spam prevention on the
Ruby list, (regarding the website www.rubygarden.org).  The admin
there has found some success in using a "tar pit" for capturing wiki
spammers.  You can view the contents of ruby-talk at comp.lang.ruby,
specifically you will want to look at the thread at
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/8397eb346d1516e4/2efc4013892474a4

They seem to have had a fair bit of success using this approach.

Another approach I saw used on a different wiki was a link to a wiki
honeypot.  Essentially, there is a link in the Wiki which takes you to
a page which basically says "Do not click *this* link, as you will be
banned from the site for X amount of time."  So the spam-bots get
banned since they crawl all the links.  Of course, this does not stop
manual spammers, but the "tar pit" approach has had some success with
that.


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:23:24 -0800, Doron Tal <dtal at email.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just noticed most of the material on the ODE wiki
> area web page
> 
>     http://q12.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ODE_Wiki_Area
> 
> is gone, and when you press on the remaining
> links (e.g. the diff link - between current page
> and previous version of the page) you get a page
> full of Chinese characters (a colleague verified
> the laguage).  I'm sure the maintainer of the Wiki
> page is well aware of this, but just in case..  If this
> were fixed, it'd be great, because I was right in the
> middle of implementing a save/restore strategy --
> a topic on which the Wiki area had a good tutorial,
> but it aint there anymore.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Doron
> 
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