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Wiki Spam Spam of this kind has become common on weblog comment systems and sadly it looks like widespread WikiSpam may become a big problem in the future. It seems, that some spam (or what else is is?) occurs always at 4:00 (see http://c2.com/mrtg/). While that is true for all of the spamming morons, there is one in particular that is spamming other sites with the urls and text from sites that call him as a spammer. www.c2.com /cgi/wiki?WikiSpam   (995 words)

Spam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Spam (electronic), unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages, such as: Spam (Monty Python), a comedy sketch involving this meat Spam magazine, published in the mid-1990s in Houghton, Michigan en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spam   (150 words)

Spam in blogs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For blogs that are built only for spamming, see Spam blog. Spam in blogs (also called simply blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamdexing. Spam Blocker Crawler Free public service for scanning guestbooks and send abuse in the Google and spammer's hoster. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blog_spam   (1436 words)

Netcraft: Wikis: The Next Frontier for Spammers? Wiki maintainers can expect an increase in spam after a webmaster newsletter highlighted the effectiveness of Wiki spam in raising a site's Google ranking. Spam and abusive behavior are not new issues for Wikis, web pages that anyone can edit or even delete. Wiki maintainers can make their sites less attractive targets by using their robots.txt file to instruct the Googlebot and other search engine spiders to skip the sandbox pages. news.netcraft.com /archives/2004/06/04/wikis_the_next_frontier_for_spammers.html   (484 words)

UseMod Wiki: WikiSpam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) WikiSpam is the wiki equivalent of e-mail and blog spam. It would be nice if spam and spam reverting edits could disappear as minor edits from 'RecentChanges' page, however it should be noted that ticking your revert as a 'minor edit' does not have this effect, it just hides the fact that you have reverted the spam (better not to). http://www.chongqed.org is a fighting wiki spam by building a database of spammers and also their favourite spamming keywords. www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiSpam   (1080 words)

Sam Ruby: Wiki Spam Update Using nofollow in a wiki is really worthless and actually does more harm than good, so you'd be better off implementing some better server side filtering (perhaps a Bayesian filter combined with a few other techniques) so the spam doesn't even get published. We run a wiki and haven't really had too much problem with wiki spammers, apart from one persistent guy from China who occasionally comes in and added dozens of links to about 10 pages every few weeks. Since almost all the spam appears to be done manually rather than by a robot, we added a sleep(20) to the code before printing out the error message denying the edit - that should be frustrating enough for a persistent spammer, while hopefully not too annoying to a legitimate submitter getting it once. www.intertwingly.net /blog/2005/02/27/Wiki-Spam-Update   (885 words)

Simon Willison: CSS-Discuss Wiki Spam The css-discuss wiki has pretty much looked after itself since its inception a year and a half ago, thanks to a small but active community of wiki gardeners. If you run an aggregator and don't mind spending a minute or so a day tending the wiki you can sign up for the RecentChanges RSS feed and help check over new changes as and when they are made. Several wikis (including the DocBook wiki) are being regularly hit by spammers using scripts to add spam links to every page. simon.incutio.com /archive/2004/04/27/wikiSpam   (1435 words)

chongqed.org wiki: WikiSpam Spamming is unwanted, antisocial, disruptive, and rude behavior. Wikis are open to anyone to edit, but if your additions benefits you (and your PageRank) more than it benefits the wiki community it is most likely unwanted and spam. Wikis can use it too, but since the entire wiki is user contributed all links would have a nofollow rather than just the comments as in blogs which is not ideal. wiki.chongqed.org /WikiSpam   (2269 words)

Wiki spam - Consumerium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) So it is important to really understand wiki spam and all the ways funded trolls might provide some advantage by manipulating or altering the overall Publish Wiki and Research Wiki mechanisms that, end to end, affect the price premiums and green lights. Most differentiate between wiki spam' which is externally motivated, and genuine "new trolls", those honestly attracted by the wiki mission. Most wiki spam is actually subtle and consists of inappropriate references to commercial products or services including raising questions or issues about them that put one type of service in a competitive advantage to another. develop.consumerium.org /wiki/index.php/Wiki_spam   (797 words)

NewsForge | Stemming the menace of wiki spamming Spam that is directed against a wiki usually consists of lists of links inserted in standard pages, such as user profiles or sandbox areas. There seems to be agreement that "wiki spam is a wikiwide problem that needs to be solved wikiwide." Furthermore, the wiki spam problem has to be solved by different approaches than email or blog comment spam; both of these are subject to bottlenecks in a way that wikis are not. Last week a Twiki wiki I am responsible for was hit by a wiki spam bot that registered using a stolen ID and then added a number of links to spam and phishing sites based in China. software.newsforge.com /software/05/06/21/1641223.shtml?tid=74&tid=48   (2406 words)

Wiki Spam gaining Momentum and Coverage | Threadwatch.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself. The most useful wikis to spam are not even the most popular wikis, but rather the least traffic and the least PeerReviewed wikis. Wiki links is different - the point of Wiki's is to maintain info and links, so it's staying within the bounds of use. www.threadwatch.org /node/755   (703 words)

Wiki Spam - Meta Go to preferences on your wiki, and under the 'recent changes' settings, check you are not hiding minor edits. chongqed.org is fighting wiki spam by building a database of spammers and also their favourite spamming keywords. They are asking the wiki community to link to this database with keywords which the spammer was trying to gain google rank on. meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Wiki_Spam   (611 words)

Wiki Spam ChongQed has examples of WikiSpam at various wikis along with the spammers' IP addresses, which can be used to ban spammers from your wiki. Spam of this kind has become common on weblog comment systems and sadly it looks like widespread WikiSpam may become a big problem in the future. While that is true for all of the spamming morons, there is one in particular that is spamming other sites with the urls and text from sites that call him as a spammer. c2.com /cgi/wiki?WikiSpam   (1010 words)

Wiki Spam - CastleCopsWiki Often a spammer will completely replace the legitimate content of a page with their spam, and may add many different links, with a range of URLS and keywords. Wikis are characterized by their open access and willingness to let anyone edit pages. Wikis are PageRank machines, being both massively linked and with hundreds or thousands of pages. wiki.castlecops.com /Wiki_Spam   (405 words)

Meatball Wiki: WikiSpamWorkshop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The problem of defending against wiki spam while maintaining the traditional wiki value of openness is a daunting one, yet it goes to the very heart of what the Internet and the world is. MeatballWiki has been leading the discussion of how to defend sensibly against wiki spam. LinkSpam is the most common type of spam since it is more profitable to rise higher in the Google rankings and get thousands of potential readers than it is to get the dozens of readers on a wiki. Spam is primarily motivated by economic factors, whereas community is primarily motivated by less tangible, soft, emotional factors. usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiSpamWorkshop   (2547 words)

O'Reilly Network -- Chongq and the Spam Vampires Although it lacks the drama of the spam vampires and the ease-of-use of the Lycos anti-spam screensaver, Chongqed.org, a new headquarters for combating blog and wiki spam, certainly takes the high ethical road. Spam vampires appear to have captured the attention of junk emailers. If every wiki spammer in the world promised to only put five links on a wiki, it would still leave wikis full of garbage and unusable," said Joe C. Still, many internet users believe that the only way to defeat spam is by hitting back at the spammers. www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/network/2004/12/03/chongq.html   (1750 words)

Spam - Spamassassin Wiki Spam really began to be a problem in 2002, and has been plaguing internet users ever since. The term "spam" comes from the Monty Python sketch where the name of the canned meat product is used so often that it crowds everything else out. Spam was mentioned occasionally in computer circles as a humorous name for a computer. wiki.apache.org /spamassassin/Spam   (545 words)

O p e n W i k i - Wiki Spam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Wiki Spam is a wikiwide problem and won't be solved but wikwide. When your IP is in the IP spam list you still can add/edit pages but after one or more verifications: like to enter a number or phrase before adding/editing which makes it harder and more time consuming to do the Wiki thing. Open Wiki NG now has an (optional) 'Bad Link List' This is a CSV file which is easily importable to the OW database via an admin page. openwiki.com /ow.asp?WikiSpam   (927 words)

Spam chongqing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Spam attracts Spam, and in the case of a honeypot, that is exactly what I want. He is attempting to improve spam filter testing by verifying (or correcting) the accuracy of one of the few large sources of real world test emails, the TREC 2005 Public Spam Corpus. The Public Spam Corpus is a body of email collected from a large corporation during the process of a legal trial. chongq.blogspot.com   (6066 words)

Topic:Spam - ITtoolbox Wiki Spamming is the practice of sending unwelcome e-mail to mass quantities of recipients, usually with the intention of promoting a commercial product. In order to combat spam and help e-mail clients distinguish good e-mail from bad, spam filters have been created. Spam is unsolicited commercial email (from legitimate or illegitimate sources), recognizable by its suspicious subject lines and unexpected or unknown sender. wiki.ittoolbox.com /index.php/Topic:Spam   (368 words)

Wiki Spam In particular they seek to improve their search engine rankings, by increasing the number of incoming links to their site, and they are willing to degrade and destroy the work of others in the process. On a heavily spammed wiki, you may find it difficult to identify the latest spam-free version of a page. If you prevent it, spammers may not notice the difference (generally they are not smart enough), however this will reduce spam attacks, since they are less likely to find your wiki in the first place. www.flexwiki.com /default.aspx/FlexWiki/WikiSpam.html   (821 words)

Anti-spam Features - Meta By all means ask your users to help watch out for wiki spam (and do so yourself) but these days spam can easily overwhelm small wiki communities. It does this by scanning the entire wiki, and where spam is found, it reverts to the latest spam-free revision. There is now also 'Spam Filter' project, dedicated to the task of building more effective spam filtering for mediawiki. meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Anti-spam_Features   (877 words)

WikiSpam < Codev < TWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Now, a spammer could raise the Google ranking of his web site by spamming Wiki pages in an automated way, which is a scary thing for public Wikis. We had again Wiki Spam in the Main web, similar spam like above has been added to almost 100 pages by IP address 203.88.152.253 and 203.88.152.17. Last night we had the same issue again (same spam content), this time registering 46 dummy users and spamming 36 existing user topics, using IP address 203.88.155.244 and 203.88.155.135. twiki.org /cgi-bin/view/Codev/WikiSpam   (866 words)

Wiki Spam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Wiki spam, like all other types of spam is a menace. I've written a wiki, and just about 10 days after it went live we got our first case of spam on the wiki. The second case - a Chinese spammer, searching Google for "wiki sandbox" found my site and defaced it. www.annexia.org /wiki_spam   (69 words)

Blocking Spam in Mediawiki - G0rd13wiki This quadruple combo works well for me in fighting spam on UMassWiki (http://umasswiki.com/), a wiki which gets a fair amount of traffic and is listed in many places on the web. Tons of wiki spam these days is hidden in specially constructed div tags. There's a small chance that a person using a virus-infected or trojaned computer could be blocked if their computer (or any computer at their IP) was spamming the wiki. wiki.evernex.com /index.php?title=Blocking_Spam_in_Mediawiki   (969 words)

wiki spam/1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The spam is for some well-known spammy domains, which are already included in one of the Movable Type fllists I checked. Either someone is paying roomfuls of monkeys to edit wikis manually, or else adding a single link to a wiki is so valuable (in terms of the stolen page rank and consequent artificial boost to search engine rankings) that it's actually worth an "SEO" person doing the work manually. This sort of low-level wiki spam is actually quite simple to resolve. www.annexia.org /wiki_spam/1   (476 words)

WikiSpam - Raymond Yee's Wiki All spam that is posted will end up in our database and your url will then show up on http://spammers.chongqed.org. 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. 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. raymondyee.net /wiki/WikiSpam   (381 words)

Combating Comment Spam « WordPress Codex Comment spam is a fact of life if you have a blog. Using WordPress, you have not only solid built-in tools to prevent comment spam, there are also a wide range of comment spam protection and defense plugins and methods to choose from. You can also add the spam words found on the Spam Words list to the list that comes with your WordPress installation. codex.wordpress.org /Combating_Comment_Spam   (1096 words)

wiki:discussion:spam [DokuWiki] Chongqed provides some spam prevention tips that include the recommendations to hide recent changes and diffs from spiderbots that respect robots.txt. A wiki shouldn’t bother about such things, unless it allows pages to have comment section where users are free to go beyond the original intention of the page. A quick browse of the dokuwiki users page shows that several people are using dokuwiki as a general CMS or using dokuwiki to create a blog alongside their wiki. wiki.splitbrain.org /wiki:discussion:spam   (1846 words)

wiki drug spam Not the e-mail spam, but rather the posting of promotional (usually pharmaceutical-related) fake pages that contain XML code pointing to brand name drugs and other items. In any case, it's a shame; the entire point of a wiki is to enable the community to create and edit pages and in the aggregate, contribute a lot of accurate, free content for the community to share. In that case, it wasn't by a spammer, but rather someone who was trying to play a practical joke on the subject of the wiki page entry. homepage.mac.com /dtoub/blog/C1162157567/E20051213082802   (232 words)

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