It will help combat that particular spam attack, but it won't stop all of them from all sources. Most wiki owners have to weigh up the various options available to them in combating spam and spambots. One option some take is to cripple editing for anonymous users, for instance.
At the end of the day, what you do depends very much on how much you can "get away with" without compromising the goal you set out to reach with your wiki.
Rob Church
On 13/12/05, Laurie Lewis ldlewis@swiftdsl.com.au wrote:
Does this mean that to stop the spam attacks I just have to add this line or is there some other things that have to be done as well?
Laurie
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$wgSpamRegex="/overflow:\s*auto/";
Works fine.
Paul
On 12/12/05, admin Yellowikis yellowikis@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Rick.
On 12/12/05, Rick DeNatale rick.denatale@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/12/05, admin Yellowikis yellowikis@gmail.com wrote:
We've been attacked too - It also adds a long list of links to http://buy-ativan.fil.ph lower on the page.
we had:
$wgSpamRegex="/overflow:auto/";
in LocalSettings.php
but an extra space has been added after the ...overflow: auto....
so now we have both $wgSpamRegex="/overflow:auto/"; $wgSpamRegex="/overflow: auto/";
Of course since $wgSpamRegex is a scalar, only the second value will be in effect, overwriting the first.
I think that something like $wgSpamRegex="/overflow:\s*auto/
would work. The \s* matches zero or more whitespace characters.
This
might be slightly off since I'm not completely up on php regex
pattern
syntax.
Rick DeNatale
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