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+ | ====== Anti-Spam Features ====== | ||
+ | Like every website that accepts user contributed content, wikis are a target of spammers. [[DokuWiki]] has a few built-in methods to avoid spam. Additional methods can be added via plugin. | ||
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+ | ===== Access Control (built-in) | ||
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+ | The simplest method to protect your wiki from spam is to let only trusted users to use it. Refer to the [[acl|Access Control Lists (ACL)]] feature on how to set that up. | ||
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+ | Of course this is not a viable option for community driven wikis. Read on for the other options that helped to keep dokuwiki.org spam free for years without having to disable anonymous edits. | ||
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+ | ===== URL Blacklisting (built-in) ===== | ||
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+ | As an active method against known spammers their URLs can be blocked. When a spammer tries to post a known spam-URL, the save will be aborted. DokuWiki comes with a small blacklist of URLs we encountered here on dokuwiki.org, | ||
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+ | See [[blacklist]] for details how this works. | ||
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+ | ===== Delayed Indexing (built-in) ===== | ||
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+ | To discourage spammers, DokuWiki uses a feature called [[http:// | ||
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+ | See [[config: | ||
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+ | ===== Mass Revert (built-in) ===== | ||
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+ | Whenever a spammer succeeds in spamming a huge amount of pages, it becomes hard to remove all the spam manually again. DokuWiki comes with the [[plugin: | ||
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+ | ===== CAPTCHA (plugin) ===== | ||
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+ | A very effective method to protect your wiki against automated spam attacks is the use of a CAPTCHA. The most recommended plugin is the [[plugin: | ||
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+ | Installing this plugin is highly recommended on public wikis! | ||
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+ | ===== Registration Protection (plugin) ===== | ||
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+ | Spam bots are known to automatically register on wikis which will create a huge amount of useless, fake users. If you allow people to self register, it is advisable to protect the registration against spam bots. The [[plugin: | ||
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+ | Of course you can also disable the registration completely using the [[config: | ||
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+ | Hint: should your wiki have been hit by a registration bot in the past, you can easily delete users by removing them from the '' | ||
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+ | ===== More Plugins ===== | ||
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+ | Check the plugin list for plugins tagged with [[plugintag> |
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