[Nix-dev] Wiki spam

[Domen Kožar]

You don't have spam because nixos.org has pagerank 5, which makes it
attractive to spammers in a way that humans are paid to enter spam links.

Your site has pagerank of 0.


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:

> Eelco: Have a look at vim-wiki.mawercer.de I have not yet had any spam.
> and if it happens its as easy as git revert. There is *no* password
> protection at all. You just have to use special ?get parameter.
> I know the design is not that pretty, its just a hack so that I don't
> have to type and talk about the same topics again. Maybe its also much
> less popular than nixos.org/wiki ...
>
> I seriously think that bots (or humans?) are specialized on media wiki.
> I think the real fix is using non standard wikis or doing anything
> non-standard, such as protecting login page by htaccess and dummy password.
> Something simple such as 'nixonixo' would probably be enough and more
> effective than captchas. If irc knowns about it ..
>
> Me too thinks that its bad to host spam. Additional alternatives such as
> github wiki has been discussed. And they are options, too.
> You can also access those git repositories easily.
>
> The community is strong enough to handle this. We just have to make a
> list of features we want and we must get started.
>
> Some additional discussions took place on this mailinglist earlier.
> How much spam does exist? Click the random page 10 times, then you'll
> know.
>
> click1: Multi-level Marketing Two Schools Of Believed Collide
> click2: Women's Manner Trend Principles To Stay By
> click3: Ageing Tips That Can Help You In The Process
> click4: Meet The Equipment Shop Manager
> click5: Picking out Straightforward Advice For beauty salon insurance
>
> I'm stopping here, you get it, all 5 pages are spam.
>
> I'm protecting against arbitrary spammers by adding a 1x1 px input spam
> bots are likely to fill, but humans miss. Thus if such a field is non
> empty I can disregard the request.
>
> The wiki is one of the weakest parts of this project.
> People spend their time on the libraries, packages and the core instead
> mostly.
>
> Marc Weber
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