[pydotorg-www] Jython wiki is still getting spammed

[anatoly techtonik]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:00 PM, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 02:28:54PM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> roughly the same, so I'm pretty sure there's a bot at work.  That suggests
>> to me that either there is a human helper to get past the TextChas or they
>> aren't being applied when they should be.  (I get prompted whenever I edit
>> the LocalBadContent page, so they are active in certain circumstances.)
>
> I tried creating a new page when logged in, and editing an existing
> page, and was prompted for textchas on all of them.  When I entered a
> wrong answer, the edit didn't go through.  So there may be a human
> involved at some level, or maybe they've made a list of all the
> questions/answers.
>
> If that's so, I don't know what can be done about this, other than
> making the textchas harder or just restricting editing of the Jython
> wiki to a limited list of people, which might be OK if the Jython
> community agrees -- not many people edit the wiki.
>
> We could add rel=nofollow to the links to deny the spammers pagerank,
> but are they sophisticated enough to notice?  (They certainly aren't
> noticing that we delete pages pretty quickly.)

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anatoly t.