[Foundation-l] Spammer trick - image uploads abused

Mon Aug 22 07:54:02 UTC 2005

Am 22.08.2005 um 05:33 schrieb Elisabeth Bauer:
> In the last time we had several cases where spammers uploaded  
> images on different wikipedias and used the pictures in html  
> emails, trying to sell chairs, grammophones or whatever.
>
> Usually the uploads were the only contributions of said user, and  
> the license was missing.
>
> It's maybe worth to consider disabling uploads on the projects  
> which don't really need it but can use commons (such as the german  
> wikipedia whose image upload policy is entirely compatible with  
> commons and especially all the smaller wikis which are not  
> constantly watched).

I oppose, there's the possiblity to block outside referrals as it  
happened
often enough in the past. Blocking ebay, google, aol, gmx and the bigger
mail-hoster would help enough. A list of commonly used hosters could be
genereated of the user-tables (for the case everybody is to lazy to do
this by hand)

A more technical solution would be to filter those referring from  
outside and
add a short text like "released under the GFDL" or the original URL  
(which I'd
prefer because licenses differ too much).

My last suggestion is to store informations about outside referrals  
(and hide those
from the search engines of course), maybe as admin page with a TOP10  
of the last 24h.

And finally a good reason about moving all to commons: Localized  
graphics are
only usefull for a single Wikipedia and thus are best kept in this  
single Wikipedia.

ciao, tom

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