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    * Meatball http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiSpam
    * Meatball http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiSpam
    * s23 http://wiki.s23.org/wiki.pl?WikiSpam
    * s23 http://wiki.s23.org/wiki.pl?WikiSpam
    * Gr�nderWiki http://www.wikiservice.at/gruender/wiki.cgi?WikiSpam (German)
    * Gr�nderWiki http://www.wikiservice.at/gruender/wiki.cgi?WikiSpam (German)
    * blog chongqed.org http://chongqed.org/
    * blog chongqed.org http://chongqed.org/


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    :::::There are other useful tests like "is the URI linked to, presently for sale?"  If so then it's likely someone trying to boost up the [[page view]]s.
    :::::There are other useful tests like "is the URI linked to, presently for sale?"  If so then it's likely someone trying to boost up the [[page view]]s.
    ==Solutions...how to fight spam on wikis==
    I have a mediawiki site set up that just got spam links (ment to increase page rank in google), how do you fight this?
    *The only solution I can think of is having what many sites use to stop automated form submission, which is have an image that contains a word that the user has to retype. This would be a slight burdon to the user, but it would make the user and the spammer on the same level, since one could delete spam just as fast as a spammer could produce it.