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chongqed.org wiki: HomePage: "Please do not post spam on this wiki, it's really for your own good. All spam that is posted will end up in our database and your url will then show up on http://spammers.chongqed.org. Of course, any spam links will be chongqed on our SpamPage. You don't really want that do you?"
I want to know where my wiki spam is coming from, so I've used IP Address Locator - Enter an IP address to find its location - Lookup Country Region City etc.
Someone has written a script to clean up other people's wikis!:
Comment from Alan Levine
It feels like a losing game, and most wikis lack the userbase to self-police like the WikiPedia. I wrote a quick UseMod hack that rejected updates that had added above a configurable number of URLs as I was getting 200 at a time full of porn sites, but this is not much protection. I have resorted to making the wiki editable only with a password, so it becomes a gated wiki. I am not convinced for all wiki purposes that they need to be wide open. I have also found Sam Spade useful for looking up IPs (Alan L)
Curse the spammers
Posted: http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee/2005/02/03#a1340
Argh. I will need to deal more intelligently with WikiSpam after being hit by a lot of spam last night. I've had a primitive strategy of manually cleaning up spam, combined with manually blocking offending IP addresses, but that strategy will not be sufficient to handle these more aggressive spammers. More later on this topic for sure.
I was considering letting only myself edit this wiki and was strengthened in that resolve when yet another person wrote to my wiki this morning. Only this time, it turned out to be a useful update on EduSource. This one correction restored my faith in wikidom and makes me want to keep, if at all practical, the open editing of my wiki. That means, probably, the need for superior clean-up facilities after a spam attack.
