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Is this a new kind of wiki spam? Camouflage/stealth wiki spam (my term because I couldn't find any reference to it)...
It's basically a small insert into an empty line of an existing page. It's difficult to detect and you have to be following the page to really notice. Accepted practice around here is you see a spammed page and you revert it. That's fine when it's obviously spam (like full page replaced with rubbish links), but what happens when it's not obvious (like small inserts mid page)? And what happens if someone legitimately edits a page with camouflage/stealth wiki spam? Are we slowly going to taint all our pages? I'm not sure what to do about it but just wanted to flag the issue if it hasn't already been flagged.
Here's what I found at [[Talk.AddNoWikiEscapeProposal]] ...
http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Talk.AddNoWikiEscapeProposal?version=33
{{{
Preformatted text is important for me, and is turning out to be quite tricky for a variety of reasons.
First, I need to...
}}}
Spam Insert
{{{
At line 6 changed 1 line.
http://www.PlanStudyAbroad.com
}}}
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http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Talk.AddNoWikiEscapeProposal?version=34
{{{
Preformatted text is important for me, and is turning out to be quite tricky for a variety of reasons.
http://www.PlanStudyAbroad.com First, I need to...
}}}
Note to self: Useful discussion at http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?CategorySpam.
[[MarkWharton]] 2007-05-07
Version Date Modified Size Author Changes ... Change note
5 07-May-2007 07:36 6.792 kB ChristophSauer to previous Stealth Spam, thanks Mark.
4 07-May-2007 06:23 6.641 kB MarkWharton to previous | to last Is this a new kind of wiki spam?
3 02-Jan-2007 11:12 5.167 kB JanneJalkanen to previous | to last
2 02-Jan-2007 09:15 4.822 kB Christoph to previous | to last configuration problem solved - creating new accounts works again
1 02-Jan-2007 09:03 4.622 kB Christoph to last
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