Neal McBurnett wrote:
After getting an updated file, I assume the mediawiki server has to be told about it. What is the best way to get it to incorporate the updated file?
Assuming you have no object cache (such as memcached) enabled, MediaWiki will load the blacklist from a file on every edit. So all you have to do is change the file. If you are using memcached, you will also have to delete the spam_blacklist_regex key, e.g. using maintenance/mcc.php.
-- Tim Starling