On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:27:30AM -0800, Jo Walsh wrote:
perhaps a content-based wiki spam filter would be useful; it wouldn't hold off dissociated-text attacks but would certainly deal with the 'long list of medication spam links' style wikispam we are seeing now. a blacklist service?
Have the framework to enable certain classes of data to be moderated (regexp based on node update for example).
Then you can trivially require moderation for any edit that contains an external URL ref. This would block the vast majority of spam that I've seen on the OpenGuides so far, and would not be an unreasonable inconvience to wiki users.
We already have the concept of admin users for node deletion, so simply set a flag in the database that a node version needs moderation and refrain from displaying such data on the public web site.
(feel free to condense the results of this discussion into a wishlist bug(s) on rt.cpan.org for OpenGuides).
Dominic.