Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Wiki spam

[Robert Roberts]

I could help out with conversion.


~Chris~

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Blossom <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:21 pm
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Wiki spam
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:00:32PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > On Monday 13 March 2006 18:40, Matt Ettus wrote:
> > > I have updated the Wiki with 3 new pages, all linked from the 
> main USRP
> > > page,
> > >
> > >   http://comsec.com/wiki?UniversalSoftwareRadioPeripheral
> > 
> > Man, that page attracts the most WikiSpam... Whoever RichardP 
> is, he's a 
> > watcher, that's for sure....
> 
> RichardP runs bots that attempt to fix wikispam on UseMod wikis.  The
> bots are right almost all the time, though sometimes they make a
> mistake.
> 
> > Although the last two defacements have been information 
> truncations, deleting 
> > most of the information.
> > 
> > Eric, I know the philosophy behind Wiki's, but, is it possible 
> to combat the 
> > wikispam in some way?
> 
> My current thought it to install the media wiki infrastructure and
> then find a volunteer to convert the UseMod wiki data into media 
wiki.
> Mediawiki's got lots of wikispam defenses, including those wiggly
> letters you have to enter in to a form in order to post.
> 
> Does any one out there have experience with media wiki (or want to 
get
> some), and would like to help out?
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
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