[Mediawiki-l] Spammed to death, need advice please.

[Carlton B]

Thanks for the suggestions, the spam regex was sufficient in this case.  I
was only dealing with two spambots and they are not particularly
sophisticated.

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On 5/8/06, Ralf Baechle <ralf at linux-mips.org> wrote:

>  o Use $wgSpamRegex to catch typical spam patterns.  In my case this were
>    free hosters, attempts to use 1 pixel height fonts or other "stealth"
>    techniques.
>  o Reduce the value of spamming the wiki by setting $wgNoFollowLinks to
>    true.  This is the default since like 1.3, keep it.

Not that it helps much, the wiki spammers don't know or if they do
they don't care.

>  o I distructivly remove any spam from the database - as if it never
>    happened.
>
> On my wishlist: some content analysis systems to augment or replace
> $wgSpamRegex.  I was thinking of something along the lines of
spamassassin,
> possibly even recycling some of it's code.

The SpamBlacklist extension!
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