On 04/10/05, MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop wrote:
"Keith Watson" keith.watson@kewill.com
What's the current status of the ALUG wiki WRT making changes?
I believe it's broken, but I don't have time to make a good solution which will fix it and prevent the spam. I will send the source code and test files to anyone who wants to fix it.
We (HantsLUG) had a similar issue a while ago. We use usemod wiki which is quite simple but doesn't have much in the way of spam protection. Some of the members of the LUG created some patches [1] which we have applied. These involve checking the content of submissions for "banned words", adding an easy "rollback" function for the admins to undo spam attacks quickly, and looking up contributors hosts/ips in DNSBL to reject their changes.
Our patches are by no means a comprehensive anti-spam solution but we have significantly chopped the number of attacks we have. In addition to which a few of us watch changes to the wiki closely via the RSS feed [2] and jump on and squash any spammers pretty quickly.
I have assisted WolvesLUG and SurreyLUG in putting the same wiki in place for them. I'd be glad to help ALUG do the same.
Cheers, Al.
[1] http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AntiSpam [2] http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=rss