Interesting, you can download the entire db (~5MB) and download incremental updates 24 times/day. This is small enough to store in memory for fast client-size lookups. They also accept RESTful submissions. I wonder what other options there are like this.
----- Original Message ----- From: Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs To: Al Johnson alj62888@yahoo.com; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 12:44 AM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.
On 24/05/13 22:41, Al Johnson wrote:
Maybe mediawiki sites can unite to keep a global list of these IP's and block them as soon as they are submitted. Each mediawiki site can auto-submit a spammer IP as soon as it's discovered to the global list. What are the problems with this idea?
There exist such lists for forum spam, for example http://www.stopforumspam.com/ . I suspect a lot of IPs would end up being used for wiki spam too, and of course you can add wiki spam to the list.