From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <nick@...>
Date: 2004-07-07T22:23:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubygems Wiki Spam

http://www.wikipedia.com seems to have a pretty efficient mechanism, but 
it is not fully automated. They block 10-20 ips per day.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist




Chad Fowler wrote:

>On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:37:32 +0900, Patrick May <patrick@hexane.org> wrote:
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>>On Tuesday, July 6, 2004, at 08:12  PM, Charles Comstock wrote:
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>>>Umm all of the rubygems wiki has been overwritten by spam from some
>>>casino online.  They are all from the same address so if there is
>>>anyway to ban edits from that address that might be helpful.
>>>Otherwise I think there needs to be some sort of captcha or other
>>>protection on all the rubyforge wiki's before the spammers realize
>>>there is a wiki for each entry that they can hit.
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>>Until Ruby-Forge adds in Deny directives, you can help by restoring the
>>last good revision of a page.
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>This is a problem that Wikis all over the web seem to be facing. 
>Anyone seen a really good general solution?  I guess not allowing
>edits would be one, but that would be a shame.
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>Chad
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