On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:37:52AM +0100, Tom Heath wrote:
Hope this helps :) and good luck. Is your tool something that could be deployed centrally to clean spam from all OGs? If yes, what do people think of that suggestion?
I haven't looked at Clair's tool yet, but any long-term solution needs to be based on preventing the spam from going live to start with (via moderation, rule-based spam filtering etc).
I've mentioned this a couple of times before but noone's taken me up on it: I use a hack on Oxford to implement moderation. Regular contributors know the moderation URL so they will be able to approve their stuff, but I get emailed and try to process all genuine contributions quickly.
It *is* a hack and certainly not the recommended way to implement moderation - that comes later with Wiki::Toolkit's proper moderation support, when we get round to it :)
In the mean time, if you're comfortable with running a hack and possibly cleaning up your database manually later, you can grab it from:
http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/computing/code/openguides/moderation.patch (patch against OpenGuides.pm - please change the email address!)
http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/computing/code/openguides/moderate.cgi moderation CGI interface.
Dominic.