[Inkscape-devel] Re: wiki spam

Bryce Harrington wrote:

All of the suggestions in this thread are viable options, although some will require more work than others:

• Changing the password: Trivial, easy to do
• Blocking more IP's: Trivial, easy to do
• Adding basic auth login: Requires sysadmin work + ongoing account admin
• Adding adv. auth login: Requires perl or php coding + sysadmin work
• Randomizing password: Requires a little perl coding
• Randomized image: Requires more perl coding
• Changing wiki's: Requires sysadmin work + lots of content conversion

Changing the code to add rel="nofollow" to links, should also help discourage spammers by making their links worth less. See:

http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

Of course this also means links people post to the wiki stop counting towards search rankings, but it may be a price worth paying.

John