From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Amir E. Aharoni" Subject: Re: wiki "abuse" Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:57:41 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 08 09:58:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oi0m1-0004NU-AN for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:58:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752635Ab0HHH6G convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Aug 2010 03:58:06 -0400 Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:44991 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751214Ab0HHH6E convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Aug 2010 03:58:04 -0400 Received: by qwh6 with SMTP id 6so6296124qwh.19 for ; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.88.138 with SMTP id a10mr9138424vcm.96.1281254281305; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.193.2 with HTTP; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 00:57:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2010/8/8 : > On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > there is a lot of spamming happening nowdays in wikis and other web f= orums, > so it's not too surprising to me that a page that is just 'this is wh= o I am > and here is a link to my blog' would be considered spam. There are co= mpanies > who are out there trying to get improved google ratings by having lot= s of > pages with links to their page. many of them do this by buying lots o= f > domains and hosting them in different places, but there are a lot tha= t are > unethical enough to put pages very similar to what you describe as ha= ving > 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. --=20 =D7=90=D6=B8=D7=9E=D6=B4=D7=99=D7=A8 =D7=90=D6=B1=D7=9C=D6=B4=D7=99=D7=A9= =D7=81=D6=B8=D7=A2 =D7=90=D6=B7=D7=94=D6=B2=D7=A8=D7=95=D6=B9=D7=A0=D6=B4= =D7=99 Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, =C2=A0I want to live in peace." - T. Moore