[Mediawiki-l] Trackback spam

[Sy Ali]

On 2/21/06, Jan Steinman <Jan at bytesmiths.com> wrote:

> Is there any strategy in place for combatting this new (to me, at
> least) form of vandalism?

Yes, Bad Behavior[1]

The trick is to ban problems at a lower level.. to have your server
analyze traffic before it gets to your wiki engine.

[1] http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bad_Behavior
http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/installing-and-using-bad-behavior/on-mediawiki/