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I note that a lot of the spam entries are intended to escape visible notice by including a <nowiki>style="display: | I note that a lot of the spam entries are intended to escape visible notice by including a <nowiki>style="display:n0ne;"</nowiki> tag -- is there a way for us to include entries that have that code on a watch list? | ||
: And wiki responds -- Per the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_Features Wikimedia Anti-spam Features] I added a $wgSpamRegex line. See also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:%24wgSpamRegex for more help. (And I got dinged by it right away even editing the code that already existed! Hence the leet for "none" which is now "n0ne".) [[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 04:45, 30 June 2006 (PDT) | |||
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Revision as of 03:45, 30 June 2006
The first 4 entries on this page were copied from the Talk:Administrator Discussion page.
I am spurred to create a page for people (self-defined administrators -- yes, you too, whoever is reading this) to discuss issues relating to running the wiki. The spur is those long numeric strings that periodically show up on brand new pages that never existed before, or, lately, as additions to preexisting pages. What's up with those? They don't seem to be link-spam because there is no link. So I wonder if they are created by some searchbot or other program running wild, by the mediawiki software, or what? Does anybody know? LQ 07:01, 26 June 2006 (PDT)
Well, a search on the internet didn't turn up anything definitive. But some people theorize it's a "proof of concept" spam to see if the site is being patrolled. If we don't remove the weird edits, the real attack begins. Some pages I came across indicated that there are RBL filters that can be installed for the Wikimedia engine. Maybe we should look into that? --Therem 19:18, 26 June 2006 (PDT)
One geek friend believes them to be screwed-up spambots. Deleting quickly is a good thing. Looking for spam-filters would be great! Janice are you going to do that? 74.65.246.165 14:04, 27 June 2006 (PDT)
Well, I have turned on the "sorbs" open proxy blocking option in the config file. I also added a page per the instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Spam. I am porting this page content over there now. --Therem 17:28, 27 June 2006 (PDT)
- We're getting even more than ever! I'm not sure the "sorbs" has helped at all. (Or maybe it would have been worse without.) LQ 04:34, 30 June 2006 (PDT)
I note that a lot of the spam entries are intended to escape visible notice by including a style="display:n0ne;" tag -- is there a way for us to include entries that have that code on a watch list?
- And wiki responds -- Per the Wikimedia Anti-spam Features I added a $wgSpamRegex line. See also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:%24wgSpamRegex for more help. (And I got dinged by it right away even editing the code that already existed! Hence the leet for "none" which is now "n0ne".) LQ 04:45, 30 June 2006 (PDT)