Comments on: Sequenza21/NetNewMusic Wiki Spammed – Temporarily Taken Down

By: Jeff Harrington

Jeff Harrington — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:02:31 +0000

Good news! The upgrade and the new anti-spam systems seem to work. We haven’t had any spam for 3 days now when it had been about once a day. Thanks for those that pitched in… If you have articles please take a look at them. I’ve been hitting random articles and cleaning up what I see.

By: jeff harrington

jeff harrington — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:26:59 +0000

Ok, it’s back! Needs cleaning up now. You’ll notice that when you login now it requires you type two words. This is of course bad for blind folk… but at the moment it’s the best solution. Anybody want to pitch in cleaning up the spam, that would be appreciated!!!

By: jeff harrington

jeff harrington — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:31:47 +0000

I’m in the process of upgrading MediaWiki and looking for the latest spam prevention tools, david. I’ll look at that one. I’m leaning towards the use of Captcha. That’s the thing we all hate that requires you type in the letters from a graphic to post.

Here’s the latest spam prevention stuff from the MediaWiki crew themselves. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Spam

Anybody else have any bright ideas, I’m all ears. Also if anybody needs access to it let me know. It’s up; I just hid the URL, which I will not post, for obvious reasons.

By: david toub

david toub — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:22:05 +0000

Thanks. The attacks have been nonstop, and I also could not keep up with reverting the pages back. I wonder if the solution might unfortunately be to either protect each page (which I believe has to be done manually for each one, which is laborious) or else install the flagged revisions add-on I've seen for mediawiki.