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Revision as of 13:04, 7 July 2009
The problem
As frequent users have noticed, we are getting a non-trivial amount of spam (typical with anything on the internet, really). These fall into:
- Crappy username spam like these
- Spam edits like this
- Odd spam like this, which I'm pretty sure is spam but could just be anonymous users showing their appreciation...
Suggestions
- We stay as we are. I don't actually mind protecting pages, deleting spam pages, and blocking spam IPs/users. Maybe I'll change my mind later, but for the moment, I don't care. But several different people have asked about more spam fighting measures, so I'm opening it up for wider discussion.
- We ban all anonymous editing. This will fix problems 2 and 3, but not so much 1. Also this will annoy people logging in from public computers (i.e. internet cafe on holiday). Also people who want to make a contribution but don't want the hassle of making an account.
- We install CAPTCHAs like this extension. This allows anyone to edit, requires unregistered users to solve a captcha, solving a captcha to register, and NO CAPTCHA to anyone signed in. This is a minor annoyance to people who regularly edit without logging in.
- Some kind of script like Wenslayer suggested. I think the biggest problem with this is getting it past the wiki server admin.
- We delete the whole wiki. (Just kidding).
Comments
Comment please! Add opinions, agreement/disagreement, other suggestions, random comments. Please also add a ranking for the options (if you have an opinion)
