Am Mittwoch, 16. November 2005 20:02 schrieb Cale Gibbard:
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It's unfortunate, but if you don't put a little bit of effort into defending your forms, they will eventually get quite a lot of spam. Cleaning up 600+ pages by hand takes quite a lot of effort, even with the ability to revert.
Is the wiki spam problem really that big? If yes, I would really wonder how Wikipedia deals with it. Since I have never come across a spammed Wikipedia article, it's hard for me to imagine that wiki spam is such a big problem.
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Another way to raise the bar a bit perhaps would be to randomise the names of the form controls slightly, so that a spambot couldn't just use the same names for things every time, it would have to properly load the page and scrape the names out.
This would mean modifying the wiki software, right? This in turn would cause problems with, for example, security updates.
- Cale
Best wishes, Wolfgang