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,