[Labs-l] Efficient way to deal with wiki spam on Labs

[Luis Villa]

Bad Behavior works wonders for me on Wordpress, and has a MediaWiki plugin;
might be something to look into?

http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/download/


On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf at free.fr> wrote:

> Le 04/07/13 06:30, Matthew Flaschen a écrit :
> > 3. Some kind of AbuseFilter/TitleBlacklist-based solution.  This seems
> > promising, and I'm wondering if some other Labs wiki has experience with
> it.
>
> Beta cluster has the same issue.  We got AbuseFilter rules maintained
> centrally by Steinsplitter and others.  That seems to be quite
> effective, I am wondering whether we could have a labs centralized
> database to maintain those rules for all labs wiki.
>
>
> The DNS blacklist does catch some open proxies referenced on sorbs.net,
> it is configured on beta via wmf-config/CommonSettings-labs.php  :
>
> $wgEnableDnsBlacklist = true;
> $wgDnsBlacklistUrls   = array(
>     'proxies.dnsbl.sorbs.net.',
> );
>
> That is really only a small part of possible spam attempts though.
>
> If we had a centralized AbuseFilter instance for labs, we could publish
> the blacklisted IP over DNS and have all labs wikis to use that DNS
> blacklist.
> We could even make it public for other people to use  :)
>
>
> I used to blacklist Amazon instances as well.
>
> There is a lot of logs on beta under /data/projects/logs, that might a
> good way to find patterns / offending hosts.
>
>
> --
> Antoine "hashar" Musso
>
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