Wiki Spam

In the past, KayakWiki was constantly being targeted by wiki spammers. With the move to Mediawiki software, spam blocking is much better.

Wiki Spam is the adding of external links to promote irrelevent websites. Anyone can edit a page on kayakwiki, without requiring registration. This is a great thing, and fundamental part of the wiki philosophy. Editing can include the adding of external links (links to other websites), which is also a great thing. Unfortunately wiki spammers abuse this freedom, and use wikis to promote their websites. In particular they seek to improve their search engine rankings, by increasing the number of incoming links to their site, and they are willing to degrade and destroy the work of others in the process. It's sad that selfish people like this exist in the world.

Wiki spamming...

• wastes the time of wiki contributors.
• wastes the time of people searching the web for information.
• wastes the time of search engine developers.
• Clobbers up the indices of search engines.
• Makes it hard to find the real information among all the spam.
• Is just as anti-social as any other form of spamming.

Abusive edits can be reverted by anyone. Older versions of each page are kept available on the history tab at the top of each page. Simply click that tab, find the latest revision prior to the spam, 'edit' this older revision, and save it over the top, with a summary such as '-spam'.

Wiki spam comes in several forms and varying levels of severity, but it is all unwelcome, and is not tolerated on kayakwiki (See also the kayakwiki Linking policy). Wiki spam is a problem shared by all wiki communities. Here on kayakwiki we are dedicated to keeping this wiki clear of spam, and we also play a part in wiki-wide antispam efforts.

chongqed.org is coordinating efforts to fight back against wiki spam on several fronts. In particular they maintain a list of known spammers, and aim to take back what the spammers desire the most: search engine rankings on their favourite spamming keywords. You are encouraged to add chonqing links below. To do this you must first report the spam to chonqed.org, and then after they have accepted your entry, link to their database from here.

[edit] Incidents of wiki spam on Kayak Wiki

As well as removing spam, you can report incidents of spam below.