[pmwiki-users] using email spam filters on wiki edits?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:01:36PM -0300, Fábio Reis Cecin wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Like many wikiadmins these days, I'm currently fighting
> wikispam with edit passwords.

Have you tried the urlapprove.php approach yet?  It works
great on pmwiki.org, and I haven't had to add a lot of edit passwords.

> - the filter training could be a rather painful process,
> since the wikiadmin would have to manually classify
> all edits for a while (doing this by email/reply
> would probably ease the process a lot).

This is why I haven't personally pushed towards a training/filter
response -- it just requires too much administrative overhead.

> - maybe some small amount of spam could get in the page
> before the filter "kicks in". but then, it would still
> be really difficult to "strongly" deface a wiki page
> with 100s of bogus links (which is the one kind of
> wikispam that is most annoying, because the "Restore"
> / "history" revisions page gets thrashed and much more
> difficult to use). 

The urlapprove.php script resolves this by not allowing
posts containing more than a set number of unapproved links.
As I mentioned, it has really slowed things down on pmwiki.org.

Pm