Re: spam on the wiki

[Richard Crozier]

On 12/01/2012 16:43, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I see several spam pages on the wiki:
> 
>   
> http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Breast_Enlargement_Without_Surgery_-_How-to%27s
> 
>   http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Capresso_Coffee_Machines
> 
>   http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=There%27s_a_answer_why_Ne...
> 
> and looking at the log, it seems we are deleting spam pages fairly
> often.  I think we are currently using some sort of captcha to try to
> prevent spam but it doesn't seem to be working very well.  Is there
> something better we can do?
> 
> jwe
> 

I suspect these are created by humans in places such as China etc. so
there's not much you can do. Perhaps we should require the user to
return the output of a random Octave function!

Richard

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