[MLB-WIRELESS] so what's with the wiki spam?

[Tom Fifield]

Here's info we've gathered about it so far;

It's a (or several) human(s). How?
- Our wiki is very customised, a bot would have to be custom-coded for 
our wiki to work
- Communication has been made with a couple of the spammers, who replied 
intellegently (albeit in Chinese)

They're Chinese-based, but blocking chinese IPs from the site would be 
time & resource consuming, and is often found to be in-effective (i.e. 
My IP address with Netspace sometimes turns up as Chinese on some websites)

They are using many email addresses from a few different providers, 
including a few that we cannot block due to them being common webmail 
services used by other members.

We've already taken steps to combat the problem. New tools have been 
added for Admins, and Tyson has implemented and continues to develop an 
intelligent filtering scheme for the user signup process. Work on the 
wiki itself has been started.

If you see a spammer before us, just shoot an email off to 
coders at melbournewireless.org.au, and if you feel like staying around for 
the cleanup effort if it comes to that, please do so!

Cheers,

Tom



David Ashburner wrote:
> 
> I notice we seem to be getting a bit of totally mindless wiki spam. Is 
> there any way to stop it?
> You have to be a member to edit a page right? Is this idiot being 
> blocked and re-joining or what?
> 
> much kudos to those vigilant dudes that are cleaning up, but what a 
> waste of your time.
> 
> 
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