[Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

[Bill Traynor]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:48, 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

I can't seem to get Title_Black list to work.  I've added the
extension and have added the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once( "{$IP}/extensions/TitleBlacklist/TitleBlacklist.php" );
$wgTitleBlacklistSources = array(
array(
         'type' => TBLSRC_LOCALPAGE,
         'src'  => 'Project:Title blacklist',
      ),
);

I've set up Project: Title blacklist as follows:

# This is a title blacklist. Titles and users that match a regular
expression here cannot be created.
# Use "#" for comments.
# This is case insensitive by default

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

Yet, I can still add account called "Buy Viagra" or whatever.

Am I missing something?

> 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
>
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