[Mediawiki-l] dealing with wiki spam

Brion Vibber brion at pobox.com
Sat Dec 18 05:33:31 UTC 2004


On Dec 17, 2004, at 3:16 PM, Michael Charters wrote:
> I noticed a feature on the wikimedia.org site earlier today that I 
> think would help our wiki out quite a bit:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist
>
> I've tried creating this page on our MediaWiki, but it didn't 
> work--i.e., after copying/pasting that Spam_blacklist to the same 
> location on our site, I was still able to create a link to one of the 
> pages on that 'URL blacklist'.

This is a new plug-in feature under development.

The wiki has a simpler blacklist feature built in: set $wgSpamRegex to 
a (Perl-compatible) regular expression. Edits whose text matches the 
regexp are rejected.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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