On 01/12/06, Travis Derouin <travis(a)wikihow.com> wrote:
I added a simple extension that provides the ability
to prevent articles
with certain title names from being saved or created. A spam problem we have
on wikiHow - which appears to be coming from a bot - is that several
articles are created with URLs for title names. This is a pretty straight
forward way of preventing this:
To make this more useful for larger sites, e.g. Wikipedia, might I suggest...
1. Taking the blacklist out of a database table which can be managed
through a special page
2. Providing a user permission that allows overriding the blacklist
(might not be used on some sites, but it would be useful to have the
option in advance)
Rob Church