[Clipart] Massive amounts of linkspam on the wiki

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 23:11 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:14:05PM -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 00:42 +0100, Theresa Knott wrote:
> > > The wiki appears to have only 4 admins. None of who are active! I've
> > > just removed all the linkspam from the article space.
> > > http://www.openclipart.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Theresa+Knott
> > > 
> > >  The spam usually starts
> > > 
> > > <div style="display:none">	
> > > 
> > > so you cannot see it on the page, only when you open an edit window.
> > > This is a real problem with not very active wikis, so people need to
> > > be vigilant.
> > > 
> > > I have not gone through the talk pages or user pages yet so please do
> > > check those.
> > > Theresa
> > 
> > I'm so glad to have you as an admin now. Everyone welcome Theresa!
> > Theresa, please alert me and other devs. if there are some other things
> > we can do to fix the spam issue...its really a shame we have to require
> > user/pass.
> 
> I had set up a filter which eliminates all <div> tags, which was
> effective at preventing this class of spam.  However, <div> tags are
> useful, and it was requested to restore it.  We knew that would result
> in more spam cleaning work.  If someone has some time to work on this
> further, a possibly good approach would be to set up a filter based on
> <div> AND 'display:none'.
> 

Theresa and other wikipedia-friends, what do you think about this
strategy? Is there a really good way to deal with spam, etc?

Jon

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