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

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Thanks Luis for mentioning Bad Behaviour: all the information about it 
on mediawiki.org was wrong (it was described as an AbuseFilter-like 
thing) so I had never looked into it before. You're the first person 
mentioning success with it, but it's possible we only hear from unhappy 
MediaWiki users which have problems with spam, not from those who solved 
the problem. :)

I've updated the extension's page (and others): 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bad_Behavior
I see two issues:
1) they don't say anywhere if patterns for IP, HTTP headers etc. are 
shared and checked on a central location (like Akismet does IIRC) or 
kept local;
2) it's probably impossible to use it on Labs given this problem with 
cache and privacy, though it may be useful for sites without caching or 
with less strict privacy policies. http://redmine.ioerror.us/issues/41

Nemo