# Wiki.rubyonrails.org spam

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-rubyonrails-org-spam/72510>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 17, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-rubyonrails-org-spam/72510 "2006-10-17T18:45:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arjackson)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-rubyonrails-org-spam/72510/1 "2006-10-17T18:45:40Z")

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Hi,

Who’s in charge of [wiki.rubyonrails.org](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org)? The spam is ridiculous. The  
maintainer needs to step up and take action.

-Andrew R.

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**Author:** ![arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arjackson)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-rubyonrails-org-spam/72510/2 "2006-10-17T18:59:43Z")

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On 10/17/06, Andrew R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Who’s in charge of [wiki.rubyonrails.org](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org)? The spam is ridiculous. The  
> maintainer needs to step up and take action.

With a wiki, a reader is a maintainer. The rollback links are at the  
bottom of the pages. Go for it.

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**Author:** ![arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arjackson)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-rubyonrails-org-spam/72510/3 "2006-10-17T19:01:43Z")

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Andrew R. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Who’s in charge of [wiki.rubyonrails.org](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org)? The spam is ridiculous. The  
> maintainer needs to step up and take action.

This question is probably better asked on the Rails mailing list.

For wikis in general, though, the “maintainer” is often the collection  
of people who use and value the wiki. For a large wiki there is really  
no way a single person can look after it.

If you see spam, remove it.

–  
James B.

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally  
for machines to execute.”

- H. Abelson and G. Sussman  
(in "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)

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**Author:** ![arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arjackson)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-rubyonrails-org-spam/72510/4 "2006-10-17T19:45:54Z")

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On 10/17/06, Andrew R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Who’s in charge of [wiki.rubyonrails.org](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org)? The spam is ridiculous. The  
> maintainer needs to step up and take action.
> 
> -Andrew R.

A little logic captcha I’ve come up with (details here:  
[http://www.robsanheim.com/brain\_buster](http://www.robsanheim.com/brain_buster)) will hopefully be in place  
soon on the Rails wiki. I’ve been working with one of the maintainers  
to get it setup… It may just be a temporary solution, as I think  
they want to move things to Ruse once its publicly released

- Rob

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**Author:** ![arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arjackson)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-rubyonrails-org-spam/72510/5 "2006-10-17T21:18:17Z")

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On Oct 17, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Andrew R. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Who’s in charge of [wiki.rubyonrails.org](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org)? The spam is ridiculous. The  
> maintainer needs to step up and take action.
> 
> -Andrew R.

```
Yeah the rails wiki is totally spammed hard. But there is a small

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team of people(myself included) that are working on migrating the  
rails wiki to Jim W.'s Ruse wiki that now powers rubygarden.  
Ruse is made to stop spam and make it easy to maintain. SWO patients  
until then but it is being worked on.

Cheers-  
– Ezra Z.  
– Lead Rails Evangelist  
– removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
– Engine Y., Serious Rails Hosting  
– (866) 518-YARD (9273)

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**Author:** ![arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@arjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arjackson)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-rubyonrails-org-spam/72510/6 "2006-10-17T19:59:56Z")

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On 10/17/06, Rob S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> A little logic captcha I’ve come up with (details here:  
> [http://www.robsanheim.com/brain\_buster](http://www.robsanheim.com/brain_buster)) will hopefully be in place  
> soon on the Rails wiki. I’ve been working with one of the maintainers  
> to get it setup… It may just be a temporary solution, as I think  
> they want to move things to Ruse once its publicly released

Oops, wrong url. Details here:  
[http://www.robsanheim.com/brain-buster](http://www.robsanheim.com/brain-buster)

- rob