[Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

[Matthias Korn]

They work! - So far...
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist 

http://www.your-wiki.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Titleblacklist

\d*\sbuy\s.*	<newaccountonly>

Best,
matsch


Am Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:59:24 -0700
schrieb Seth Marbin <smarbin at gmail.com>:

> I have also been getting these same stupid user accounts lately on
> www.teampedia.netI have ConfirmEdit installed with the
> SimpleCaptcha.... please let me know how the blacklists work!
> -Seth
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Jake Ford <jake at debatrix.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I have been getting an average of 5 or 6 spam user accounts created
> > per day on my site of the "buy Viagra type. I just installed two
> > extensions in the hope of blocking future attacks.
> >
> > 1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist
> > 2. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist
> >
> > I will let you guys know if it worked.
> >
> > Jake4d
> > www.debatrix.org
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jake Ford [mailto:jake at debatrix.org]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:51 AM
> > To: 2007 at gmaskfx.com; 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues
> >
> > I recently started getting the same spam. I am going to install the
> > SpamBlacklist extension tonight or tomorrow and will let you know
> > how it works.
> >
> > Jake4d using v1.14
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 2007 at gmaskfx.com [mailto:2007 at gmaskfx.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 3:53 PM
> > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues
> >
> >
> > 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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