Re: Spam Documents.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:07 AM, K Lowe <[email protected]> wrote:
> GoboLinux Knowledge Base is now extensively infected with span documents.
> http://wiki.gobolinux.org/index.php?title=Special:AllPages
>
> With reference to previous emails, none of the suggestions made by James
> Browning were implemented.
> http://lists.gobolinux.org//pipermail/gobolinux-users/2011-May/008656.html
>
> Since the Forum has been shut down, perhaps similar action should be taken
> protect the valuable source of GoboLinux Knowledge Base.

Thanks for the updated heads up.

I just spent a few hours on this and took a number of measures to work
on the spam problem:

* The wiki now requires registration in order to edit
* Registration requires email confirmation
* A math captcha was added
* The SpamBlacklist extension was added
* A major cleanup of the wiki was performed, removing spam links and
deleting spam pages. There may still be some spam content lurking,
though.

-- Hisham