[hackerspaces] Updating Hackerspace wiki entry

[Florian Holzhauer]

Hi List, Hey Ryan,

I already fixed it yesterday evening, so everything should be back up 
and running.

However, it might be a good thing to discuss this in general:

Hackerspaces.org is experiencing an annoying amount of spam, several 
pages per day currently. The problem is, that apparently most of it is 
being created manually by copypaste:

* Email addresses are being verified
* Captchas are apparently useless, both graphical and questions
* Some of the spam pages are being edited for some minutes and 
rearranged if the spam filter triggers
* Source IP addresses are random dialup IPs
* User Agents, etc, are pretty standard and random

I dont see right now a method do deal with such a pattern without having 
false positives.

So either we risk having every few weeks a false positive, or the wiki 
being flooded with spam. Before my small workaround plugin existed, the 
spam was being cleaned manually by usually two or three volunteers 
monitoring Recent Changes. But this is a pretty tiresome and 
nonsustainable way, so I doubt this would work for long.

The only other way I currently see is some kind of manual verification, 
and this is way more annoying for all involved parties than a false 
positive every few weeks.

I would be very happy to see a recommendation for another solution. I am 
very well aware that the current state might suck, especially for the 
false positives. :)

Cheers,
Florian
Am 23.07.13 01:38, schrieb Ryan Rix:
> Can the plugin be disabled until it is working, please, Florian?
>
> On Mon 22 July 2013 22:00:06 Florian Holzhauer wrote:
>> Hey Daniel,
>>
>> this is my fault. hackerspaces.org is currently experiencing quite a lot
>> of spam, so I crafted a quick and dirty spam checker plugin.
>>
>> This plugin has a small known bug, which I will fix until wednesday. So
>> either wait until then, or make sure, the page (the old content, too)
>> has no <br> tags in it :)
>>
>> Sorry,
>> fh
>>
>> Am 22.07.13 18:23, schrieb Daniel Harmsworth:
>>> Heyo Wiki Admins!
>>>
>>> I was attempting to update the Artifactory
>>> (http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Artifactory) page to reflect a change in
>>> our membership fees and was unable to do so owing to the spam prevention
>>> filter, the problem is I have not added any URL's to the page at all and
>>> cannot figure out which one is causing the filter to trip. Some help
>>> would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Happy Hacking and see you all at 30c3!
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel Harmsworth
>>> Treasurer, The Perth Artifactory Inc.
>>> http://www.artifactory.org.au
>>> <http://www.artifactory.org.au/>
>>>
>>>
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