Spam on Trac wiki pages

Tenzer

I am subscribed to the Trac timeline RSS feed, and saw that there was tons of changes today to the wiki pages by a bot, which posted a lot of hidden links on lots of pages. They are probably only used for search optimizations and for giving their sites a better status, since they aren't viewable without looking at the pages code or the plain text view of a page.

Are any action being taken against this, as it probably aren't going to disappear on it's own? Either in form of a captcha when editing pages, or some other form of anti-spam implementation.

I would volunteer helping with nursing the wiki in order to remove these links, maybe by manual approval to every edit made in the wiki (if Trac allows this), or by any other means. I could also help with the general structuring of the wiki, if anything needs to be moved around in order to be easier to find, etc.

Btw. Here is a couple of pages I can't do that much against, since I can't delete the pages (they never contained any real content):
http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/wiki/ZenphotoDev
http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/wiki/TracWiki
http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/wiki/TracReports

Tenzer

While cleaning up I found that the following page has an attached image, which doesn't have any relation to anything Zenphoto related, can somebody remove that?
http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/wiki/TracGuide

Edit: And another one: http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/wiki/ImageMagick

sbillard

Thanks. This happens every once and a while and we have to clean it up.

Tenzer

Does that mean you don't have any plans for a long term solution?

acrylian

Well, actually we don't really use the trac wiki currently so it does no real harm. We actually only use the svn and bugtracker. All other stuff is on our Wordpress site because it is much more convenient to work with (from my point of view)

Tenzer

In that case I would suggest to remove the permission to edit wiki pages from normal users on Trac, that would at least be an easy solution for this.