Rails - Jan 2006 - Rails Wiki gets hit by the spam bots

I was just looking over the open source projects page on the rails wiki 
today, when I noticed it had gotten hit with several paragraphs of asian 
wiki spam. It looks like nearly all of today''s revisions were spam.
When
I was going through and deleting the spam, I found on some pages earlier 
english spam stuck in lists or divs using css''s display: none or
height:
1 to hide them from casual page viewers.

I cleaned up what I could find, but it might be useful to go through and 
do an audit for hidden (or non-hidden) wiki spam.

--
Dan Weinand

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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I don''t have any experience administering wiki systems so I hope this
isn''t
a dumb question...

Doesn''t the Rails Wiki (and wiki''s in general) have a change
tracking and
report capability?

Thanks,
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Weinand" <dweinand@gmail.com>
To: <rails@lists.rubyonrails.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:21 PM
Subject: [Rails] Rails Wiki gets hit by the spam bots

> I was just looking over the open source projects page on the rails wiki
> today, when I noticed it had gotten hit with several paragraphs of asian
> wiki spam. It looks like nearly all of today''s revisions were
spam. When
> I was going through and deleting the spam, I found on some pages earlier
> english spam stuck in lists or divs using css''s display: none or
height:
> 1 to hide them from casual page viewers.
>
> I cleaned up what I could find, but it might be useful to go through and
> do an audit for hidden (or non-hidden) wiki spam.
>
> --
> Dan Weinand
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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