Graywolf has an excellent post on err… editing Wikipedia to your own benefit. I can confirm from my personal experience all said there has great value and maybe this just happens to be one more step in the direction of making spam intelligent. (Those reading my blog jmore or less regularly know how I hate dumb buttom clicking spammers – if you’re doing it make sure you’re using your head not your backside)
There are a couple points I might as well add to Graywolf’s post:
- While holidays (e.g. Christmas etc.) are generally good for spamming (less people will notice your activities) this goes the opposite way for Wikipedia – the less activity is happening there per minute, the more likely you are to get busted.
- Creating usr accounts is certainly the best way to go. However, when editing anonymously, use proxies and change them frequently as your IP can be tracked for activities there as well as a user name for a logged in user – but before using a proxy, make sure it’s not one of those spammed to death proxies that’s been used by other spammers ad nauseam.
- One more good place to add links is actually the discussion pages for articles – but USE YOUR HEAD eejits!
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