On 9/3/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Consider
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension
This blacklists the payloads rather than the carriers. In other words
it checks for urls which wikispammers try to insert into articles and
prevents them from saving the page.
I've found it quite effective, particularly when using a listed based
on that kept by
chongqed.org
Thanks, this method looks ideal in some ways.
Unfortunately it says "reportedly requires Mediawiki version 1.4.1 or
greater" and I'm running 1.3.5 so I will have to investigate what is
required to upgrade first.
I had a feeling this might end up as my second question:
Can the mediawiki database be retained as it is when installing a new
version of the mediawiki software or does the whole thing need to be
exported and re-imported afterwards somehow?
--
Andy Roberts
http://blog.ultralab.net/~blogger/andy/
http://www.ukcider.co.uk