You have blocked p21.info - we were being spammed with p2l (P2L) - could that be the problem?.

paul

On 5/23/05, Rick DeNatale rick.denatale@gmail.com wrote:

With the recent rash of wikispam attacks, I decided to install the SpamBlacklist extension on my mediawiki.

It seems to be working, but I can't seem to tailor it. I downloaded the blacklist from meta to wikimedia_blacklist, and I set up the file list with:

$wgSpamBlacklistFiles = array ( "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/wikimedia_blacklist", // Wikimedia's list // database title "DB: wikidb Spam_blacklist", );

I created an article in the main namespace called "Spam blacklist" and put the following regex fragment in it:

p21.info

I tried to resave an article from one of the spammers with a link to this site and it wasn't caught.

I messed around and while trying to isolate the problem I put that line into the beginning of the wikimedia_blacklist file, and it worked!

So I took it out and tried again, and sure enough it failed to trap it. So question 1 is

What's wrong with my setup in pointing to the local Spam blacklist article, should it be in a different namespace perhaps?

Then I put the line back into the file so that at least I'd be blocking p21.info until I refreshed the master list, but it then again failed to work. I tried again by picking another domain in the master list, and it got blocked.

So question #2 is why changes to the master list aren't effective? Looking at the extension code, it seems to be talking about somehow caching the reg exp list, but how that works is cryptic to me. Any advice or insight? Perhaps this is also why the database article isn't working either. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l