Interesting, you can download the entire db (~5MB) and download incremental updates 24
times/day. This is small enough to store in memory for fast client-size lookups. They
also accept RESTful submissions. I wonder what other options there are like this.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.rs>
To: Al Johnson <alj62888(a)yahoo.com>om>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
<mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.
On 24/05/13 22:41, Al Johnson wrote:
Maybe mediawiki sites can unite to keep a global list
of these IP's and block them as soon as they are submitted. Each mediawiki site can
auto-submit a spammer IP as soon as it's discovered to the global list. What are the
problems with this idea?
There exist such lists for forum spam, for example
http://www.stopforumspam.com/ . I suspect a lot of IPs would end up
being used for wiki spam too, and of course you can add wiki spam to the
list.