How about similar to this? $text = explode("\n", $revision->getText()); If (preg_match($gibberishRegex, $text[0]) ) { Return "bad user"; } else { Return "ok"; }
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 2007@gmask.com Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:34 PM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] jibberish REGEX syntax help
So what would the syntax be to match something that begins at the start of the page?
Sort of what I'm thinking is to try and match anonymous users who post under a certain number of characters to the beginning of a page.
But it seems like regex is limited to matching the beginning of a line.
-Adrian
--- Chuck chuck@mutualaid.org wrote:
2007@gmask.com wrote:
This is what is happening to me as well.. but the inserted words
are
allways at the beginning of the page which gives me hope in
blocking
these types of bot edits with a regex.
Right. This is the same bot we're having problems with.
Chuck
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