A strategy for dealing with PageRank spam on wiki. A special page is created to hold a list of spammers' IP addresses and/or hostnames. Each edit is checked against this list before being accepted. As new (first-time) spammers hit wiki, or existing spammers change IP addresses, the new addresses are added to the list by WikiGnomes.
Here are some resources:
WikiEngines with built-in support for blacklisting:
- MediaWiki is about to support this:
- The banned_links, max_anonymous_links and max_identified_links properties are no longer supported.
Some drawbacks:
- This solution has a high administrative overhead.
- Doesn't catch new spam the first time.
Refer to WikiSpam for background information about the problem this solution tries to address.
See WikiSpamSolutions for other alternatives.