Documentation repository _wiki_ seems have spam (https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano.github.io/wiki)

[pasq...@sunyit.edu]

Looking at the Capistrano Documentation GitHub the wiki (https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano.github.io/wiki) seems to be full of spam. I don‘t see how any of these 30 or so postings are related to the Capistrano project. For example: https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano.github.io/wiki/Home. (note the ending period) and Distributor Solahart Water Heater 081284559855. 

The commit log lists these four unique emails: 

Author: servicepemanasairsolahart <godan...@gmail.com>

Author: solahart promoduo <solahart...@gmail.com>

Author: solahartjakarta <tukangs...@gmail.com>

Author: solahartpromoduo <solahart...@gmail.com>

Could an admin have lost his/her SSH keys? I am unfamiliar with GitHub wikis. 

[Lee Hambley]

Wiki is publicly editable, as a rule I turn wikis off on all my projects, but someone (I forget who) petitioned me to re-enable the wiki.

Lee Hambley

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[Lee Hambley]

I disabled basically every wiki on everything under capistrano/......., except the ones that have content, which now require repository push access to modify. 

Unfortunately they are essentially worthless now, it's a massive, massive disappointment that Github haven't addressed this spam problem at all.

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[troels knak-nielsen]

I wonder how well it would work to create a job that checks out new commits from the wiki, send them to something like spamicity.info and mails this list if the content looks like spam?

Since the offending commits are deleted now, I can't make a quick test - does anyone have the original spam commits and could you perhaps share them somehow?

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[Lee Hambley]

That's certainly interesting, but is absolutely something Github should be doing, not us.... If you want to try it out, though, you can clone the wiki, and search for unreachable commits, or google "Github wiki spam" and see all the other affected projects and take some content from there... maybe in the metadata there is some hint that it is spam… be that bad dates/times in the headers, or poor/inactive user profiles, or that the committers email address looks like spam, i don't know, but we managed this problem by force-pushing the master ref for the affected wikis in the past.

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[troels knak-nielsen]

Never mind - Googling for `site:github.com solahart` does the trick.

Oh, I agree Lee, but some times you just need to do the dirty work your self. I'll see if it's as easy as I just made it sound - probably not, but well ..

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[troels knak-nielsen]

For the curious, I didn't get much luck with spamicity, but I just tried to hook up to akismet instead, and it appears to do a very good job. Right now it's just a quick and dirty script that sites on my machine, but if I get the time during the weekend, I'll see if I can turn it into something useful.

[Lee Hambley]

Thanks, great news!

Sent from my Nexus 5.

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