Fwd: Reducing spam on Erights Wiki
Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.e.general |
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Begin forwarded message: > From: James Graves <[email protected]> > Date: March 17, 2011 16:15:50 EDT > To: Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Reducing spam on Erights Wiki > Reply-To: [email protected] > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 06:35:34PM -0400, Kevin Reid wrote: >> It seems like it would reduce the noise of the more persistent >> spambots if we prohibited the creation of any page whose name starts >> with "Talk:/", which seems reasonably unlikely to be legitimate. >> >> If MediaWiki doesn't support this well it could be done as a regex >> match on the URL in Apache, perhaps? > > That's not a bad idea. > > I'll have the new server ready soon. After that is stable, I'll have > another look at anti-spam plugins and whatnot available for MediaWiki. > > James -- Kevin Reid <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>