What's Going on exactly
Study of what's going on (at ruby wiki, tcl wiki, etc.): Note that this is still very very rudimentary. We should collect more data on the type of spam, other wikis, occurrence, patterns, etc. That will help us know how to react I think.
- It seems that the process is mostly manual at that time (2004) judging by the times at which edits occur.
- Quite a good time is spent on this process (at least in the range of 10 minutes per wiki) but the reward can be huge if the spammed wiki is popular (see pagerank algorithm).
- Both sites URLs and origin IP addresses are from pacific Asian source. There is probably a limited number of spammers right now. I have a pointer on a German company, one English, and one from Israel too, see chongqed site below.
- links to a) a list of spammers : http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiBlackList and b) a site dedicated to the counter offensive : http://chongqed.org/fightback.html
- Example of spam on the Tclers wiki: http://mini.net/tclrevs/17-128-127
Note 2: It seems to me that Wiki Spamming is very very different from mail spamming. Let's not try to apply the same kind of solutions to both.
Solutions
Solutions