[Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

Matthias Korn matsch at rockinchina.com
Fri Jul 10 22:20:31 UTC 2009


Hi,

we have exactly the same issue and I am trying to fight it with the
TitleBlacklist Extension right now:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist

My Regexp entry is:
\d*\sbuy\s.* <newaccountonly>

Not sure if it works, though. Gotta wait.

Best,
matsch


Am Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
schrieb "2007 at gmaskfx.com" <2007 at gmaskfx.com>:

> 
> Is anybody else getting tons of user registrations that have spam in
> the user pages and the usernames are soemthing like "180 buy Viagra"?
> 
> I haven't had a chance to test it but doesn't the keyword blacklist
> block the usage of those words in usernames and userpages?
> 
> Also is there a better captcha available.. this bot is getting around
> the math question
> 
> AD
> 
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