[Clipart] Hidden Links on OpenClipArt Wiki

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Sat Jan 21 18:47:19 PST 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:13 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> B.C. Holmes wrote:
> > Nicu Buculei wrote:
> >>
> >> Anyway, this is a wiki, so anyone can modify it and remove spam, even 
> >> you (I cleaned the page now).
> > 
> >      Sure, granted.
> >      But in this case, I thought that raising awareness of a potential 
> > phenomenon would be more useful than reverting a specific instance of 
> > the phenomenon.  I don't, for example, have any tools at my disposal for 
> > determining how wide-spread the spamming is, and I was hoping maybe 
> > someone else would.
> 
> To see how wide-spread the spamming is you can watch the recent changes 
> list: http://openclipart.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Recentchanges
> 
> It appears the page you noticed escaped for a long time detection.

Cool, Bryce added to his list of todo to install the anti-spam measures
on our wiki...great! Spammers suck!

Jon


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