Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] New Anti Spam API in xwiki-platform-spam

On 29 Jan 2016 at 16:13:38, Thomas Mortagne (thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com(mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote: It could but I consider it a core service and I’d like to xwiki core dev team to maintain it. I’m volunteering of course.

Thanks -Vincent > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 4:10 PM, vincent(a)massol.net wrote: >> Hi devs, >> >> We’ve suffered some spamming attacks on xwiki.org recently and we’ve put xwiki.org under cloudflare. This should prevent some attacks but it’s not enough and spam is still going through. >> >> I’d like to propose creating a new xwiki-platform-spam module with an API module and a simple implementation using keyword blacklisting. >> >> xwiki-platform-spam >> |_ xwiki-platform-spam-api >> |_ xwiki-platform-spam-simple >> >> We could imagine adding an akismet implementation later on: xwiki-platform-spam-akismet >> >> For the simple implementation, I’d like to be able to configure the keywords in xobjects to make it simple to update and have the community helping. >> >> The API would be simple: >> >> @Role >> public interface SpamChecker >> { >> /** >> * Checks if the passed content is considered spam or not. >> * >> * @param content the content to check >> * @param parameters a map of parameters that depends on the implementation used. For example this can include the >> * IP address of the submitter of the content, its email address, the date of submission, etc >> * @return true if the content is considered spam or false otherwise >> */ >> boolean isSpam(Reader content, Map parameters); >> } >> >> >> Then the idea would be to have an EventListener for page save and comment save and go through this API. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >>