hello, we have been getting spambot defacing our wiki site lately. is there any anti-spam feature in instiki ? i am thinking of something like asking user to input the dynamically generated number before confirming editing. (the bot is using proxy server and ip is dynamic so ip filter doesn''t help here) you can see the spam action here http://wiki.perlchina.org/main/recently_revised/ James.Q.L __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Hi James, On 7/17/05, James.Q.L <shijialeee@yahoo.com> wrote:> we have been getting spambot defacing our wiki site lately. is there any anti-spam feature in > instiki ? i am thinking of something like asking user to input the dynamically generated number > before confirming editing. (the bot is using proxy server and ip is dynamic so ip filter doesn''t > help here)Unfortunately nothing is built in. This is a generic problem with pubklicly available wikis. Depending on your circumstances you can hack together a simple solution. The first two are for suitable if you have a core group of posters. * Instiki already allows you to place a per-web password. Users can only view the published version, and need a password to login and edit pages. * With a little hacking you can require the edit password to be given on each edit. * You can probably integrate captcha (http://captcha.rubyforge.org/) for the edit template. I haven''t used it before, but it''s probably not a big hussle. In any case, we can help you if you have questions about hacking Instiki if you choose to implement something.> you can see the spam action here http://wiki.perlchina.org/main/recently_revised/That got a chuckle - a ruby wiki for perl users :-) Cheers, Assaph
> * You can probably integrate captcha (http://captcha.rubyforge.org/) > for the edit template. I haven''t used it before, but it''s probably not > a big hussle. > > In any case, we can help you if you have questions about hacking > Instiki if you choose to implement something.i am not a ruby programmer at all. neither am i web developer. I may have to come up with some perl solution ;)> > > you can see the spam action here http://wiki.perlchina.org/main/recently_revised/ > > That got a chuckle - a ruby wiki for perl users :-)I would have used twiki if i were the one set it up. but i like instiki''s interface and easy of use now. I am more inclined to the captcha way. it seems to be the better way to eliminate spambot. btw, I noticed that rubyonrails wiki site(use instiki as well) suffers the exact same spambot attack recently. So a solution of captcha integrated with instiki will benefit not only us. (i was thinking about, oh, crap, this is a chinese wiki site, no wonder we got spam.)> Cheers, > Assaph >thanks for the suggestions, James.Q.L __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com