There is an increasing amount of Wiki Spam showing up on the OOoWiki.
People with Sysop status on the Wiki have been catching most of it and
deleting it, but some still slips by, and manually scanning for Spam
each day is time consuming.
I have started adding keywords to the $wgSpamRegex variable in the
LocalSettings.php file (defines all the settings for the Wiki). This
should allow the Wiki engine to pre-screen edits against a list of known
words that will likely never show up in a normal Wiki pages about OOo.
The current string is:
$wgSpamRegex =
"/Shopaholic|Warcraft|wowgold|mmorpg|item4u\.com|warhammer/";
This is just a start, and I expect that the spammers will start being a
bit more creative as they start to run up against the list of restricted
words.
If you (as a Sysop) delete any Spam that is still getting through, make
a note of some of the keywords, and especially the external websites
they are linking to. We can add to the keyword list, and add a list of
banned external links to at least make the Spammer work harder (and
hopefully give up).
If anyone runs into the "Your edit has been blocked by the Spam filter
message" for a legitimate edit, please speak up and we can try to sort
out how to change the regex to allow the legit edits.
C.
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Clayton Cornell [email protected]
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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