Hello
Having been hit quite badly by a spammer (bot?) similar to what others are
describing, I have tried to put some anti-spam measures in place, but I'm
getting confused with the SpamBlacklist extension (using with mediawiki
1.5.0). I got the files from cvs and put them in extensions/SpamBlacklist/,
then after having a tricky time getting the raw list from mediawiki (does it
still need to use a cron to fetch this, the "load_lists" file did not seem to
be in current cvs), I got the chonqued list as so:
wget -O chongqed_blacklist_raw 'http://blacklist.chongqed.org'
cut -d? -f3 chongqed_blacklist_raw > chongqed_blacklist
I then added the include for SmapBlacklist in Localsettings.php:
require_once( "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.php" );
$wgSpamBlacklistFiles = array(
"$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/wikimedia_blacklist", // Wikimedia
"$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/chongqed_blacklist"
// database title
// "DB: wikidb My_spam_blacklist",
);
wikimedia_blacklist is a zero size file.
Now when I try to edit a page, I can add a pattern from the chonqued_blacklist
and still save the page with no warnings or blocks. Here is a section of the
tail of chonqued_blacklist (I have prepended "1" onto all urls):
1zytemp\.com\.cn
1zzdh\.com
1zzdx\.com
This seems similar to the wikimedia format, but when I edit a page and add for
example
http://1zzdx.com, the page saves fine. Am I missing something?
Thanks for any suggestions,
H