Re: wiki "abuse"

["Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>]

2010/8/8  <david@lang.hm>:
> On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> there is a lot of spamming happening nowdays in wikis and other web forums,
> so it's not too surprising to me that a page that is just 'this is who I am
> and here is a link to my blog' would be considered spam. There are companies
> who are out there trying to get improved google ratings by having lots of
> pages with links to their page. many of them do this by buying lots of
> domains and hosting them in different places, but there are a lot that are
> unethical enough to put pages very similar to what you describe as having
> posted on any site they can manage to get into.

There are people on this list who know MediaWiki much better than i
do, so you don't need technical support from me, but i'll mention
anyway, that installing a Captcha extension, even a simple one such as
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit , lowers automated
spamming.

And if the suspected spammer is a human and not a robot, talking to
him is better than blocking on sight.

Can anyone please unblock my account Amire80 and IP 132.64.34.38?
There are some contributions i want to make. Thank you.

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אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
Amir Elisha Aharoni

http://aharoni.wordpress.com

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 I want to live in peace." - T. Moore