[Clipart] Massive amounts of linkspam on the wiki

[Theresa Knott]

On 9/9/06, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> 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

Hmm I'm not sure. They'll just adapt by not putting display:none, and
making the text white, or use some other trick. Wikipedia deals with
spam mostly by simply removing it. But there again wikipedia is a very
active wiki. Someone will remove spam within seconds. We also have a
blacklist. Any url on that blacklist will cause the page to not save
the  edit. That works for some of them. For smaller wikis having a
nofollow tag on all external links ( which I think is the default for
mediawiki software) means that spamming for SEO is a waste of  time.
I think the bad guys have finally cottoned on to this.  I haven't seen
any spam for a while.

Theresa