Re: Wiki spam

Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> We have ourself a spammer, inserting links to their auto-parts store into
>> random high-level articles on the Wiki yesterday:
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Masini
>>
>> Those are all reverted, and I picked the standard options to block the user
>> account forever as well. That includes blocking any IP addresses they now
>> try to edit from as well, to make it more difficult to just start over with
>> another account from the same location at least once they realize they've
>> been caught.
>
> Thanks Greg.

indeed!

>
>> That means this list is now not empty:
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist and any future addresses
>> they try to edit from will end up on an IP block list there. That
>> theoretically that could turn into an unfair block for someone else at that
>> same location one day; hopefully we won't see enough of these for it to be a
>> problem.
>>
>> Last week was the Wiki's second anniversary. Pretty long time to make it
>> without accumulating any blocked users.
>
> Not bad really. Certainly far better than I ever expected (this was
> precisely the reason I always used to object to having a wiki - glad
> to be proven wrong, or at least delayed in this case :-) ).

Well i think they main reason is that we have a custom authentication
interface that non of the off-the-mill mediawiki spammer scripts is
aware off...

Stefan