(WT-en) Jwalling

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John Walling

Spam Patrol

• I make regular contributions at http://www.katrinahelp.info/
  • I am working on this wiki article: Animal Rescue Resources
  • I setup Spam Patrol guidelines for KatrinaHelp.info.
• Feel free to leave a message on my talk page
• I can be e-mailed here: mailto:wallingconsulting@yahoo-dot-com
• I am interested in strategies to defeat wiki spam.
  • SpammerBlockPattern
  • SpamBlacklist extension
  • Bad Behavior MediaWiki extension
• I have websites at myseattle.com & fulgeo.com
• I am bootstrapping a wiki at http://www.myseattle.com/mediawiki/

--(WT-en) Jwalling 14:14, 31 December 2005 (PST)

SpammerBlockPattern

Introduction

• The following Regex fragment list came from scraping affiliate marketing spam
• The most useful regex fragment is height:\s*\dpx
• The list minimizes domain names since they change constantly
• The list is maintained with a regex editor: http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/
• The list can be used as a
  • spam blacklist
  • guide for spam search
  • regular expression ($wgSpamRegex = "/frag₁|frag₂|...|frag_n/i";) in LocalSettings.php
• More details at KatrinaHelp.info ,
  • Bot bulk spam posting has dropped 99% since installing the list.

Regex fragment list

• http://www.myseattle.com/mediawiki/wgSpamRegexList.txt

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