Spam

Nonsense text and promotional links are an ever-present problem on this wiki. Those who add the pages don't seem to understand that these wiki links don't add anything to their pagerank and are just a waste of their and our time.

Nevertheless, spam remains a problem and it seems that only one or two members on this wiki are allowed to delete pages and/or block users. Other wiki members spot the spam but can't do anything about it. They can blank the page, but then as soon as the page gets deleted, so does any record that the page was blanked. So in effect it's worthless for normal users to spend any effort fighting the spam, because their efforts will be deleted too.

Helping
If you are interested in helping to block spamming accounts and revert edits please apply for administrator access on the SAC list (or contact Arnulf Christl directly). Thanks.

Shields up again
I have added some new captchas and the spam burden seems the be heavily reduced. Let's monitor... Cheers Markus Neteler 00:33, 31 May 2012 (PDT)
 * Is there any chance of making the captchas a little bit more tricky? At the moment it seems that the png is always "+1", which is making the automatic registration perhaps just a little bit too easy. Leo 03:56, 6 August 2013 (PDT)

A few places to watch for spam

 * Special:RecentChanges: Main OSGeo wiki
 * GeoTIFF -frequently abused.
 * GEOS -frequently abused.
 * PROJ.4
 * GDAL
 * MetaCRS