Re: wiki "abuse"

> 2010/8/8  <david@lang.hm>:
>> On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>> there is a lot of spamming happening nowdays in wikis and other web forums,
>> so it's not too surprising to me that a page that is just 'this is who I am
>> and here is a link to my blog' would be considered spam. There are companies
>> who are out there trying to get improved google ratings by having lots of
>> pages with links to their page. many of them do this by buying lots of
>> domains and hosting them in different places, but there are a lot that are
>> unethical enough to put pages very similar to what you describe as having
>> posted on any site they can manage to get into.
>
> There are people on this list who know MediaWiki much better than i
> do, so you don't need technical support from me, but i'll mention
> anyway, that installing a Captcha extension, even a simple one such as
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit , lowers automated
> spamming.
>
> And if the suspected spammer is a human and not a robot, talking to
> him is better than blocking on sight.
>
> Can anyone please unblock my account Amire80 and IP 132.64.34.38?
> There are some contributions i want to make. Thank you.