Re: [Qemu-devel] Wiki spam

[Anthony Liguori]

On 07/15/2011 12:24 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:

> Wiki spammers are still very active on qemu.org (see
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges).
>
> The QEMU wiki needs more technical protection against spam
> and also more administrators who can remove spam pages
> (I can't, so I simply emptied the pages I just found).

There's no simple solution to spam.  Even captcha's are limited as many 
spammers are just using mechanical turks plus OCR to defeat captchas.

recaptcha had some problems recently so I had to disable it on the wiki 
which led to an influx of spam.  It seems to be working fine again so 
I've reenabled it.  Hopefully the spam activity will dramatically drop 
again.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
> Stefan Weil