Spam

From Barbelith

Hey folks, just wanted to let you know some really interesting things happening on this wiki, thanks for putting it out there. I see you have had some trouble with spam, likewise with us. As 'us' i am reffering to the The s23 wiki (http://www.s23.org/wiki) aka Seti23. We've installed some counter-measures for spam that have been working (most of the time), they arent full proof and we are still tweeking them, but i was wondering if you folks would be interested in learning more about them (Spam_Blacklisting, which disallows a spammer from putting content on that has been blacklisted, for example urls with 'viagra' in them etc...) these are patches that have been made for mediawiki but have not been included in any of the versions yet. Thing is you might be required to upgrade your version of mediawiki, and upgrades suck as we all know.

Just throwing this out there. Let me know (on my s23 talk page (http://wiki.s23.org/User_talk:Kunda)) cheers -Kunda 00:21, 17 Dec 2005 (EST)

(Edit) Check out s23's Mediawiki_Upgrade_Tutorial_with_Spamblacklist_patch (http://s23.org/wiki/Mediawiki_Upgrade_Tutorial_with_Spamblacklist_patch) it's still in the process of being created, almost done though. Feedback appreciated + pass it around if you know anyone else who has these issues. cheers, -Kunda -Kunda 15:07, 18 Dec 2005 (EST)