[Rack] wiki spam

[Gavin Knight]

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features

Adding the blocklists and regex for spammy stuff can really help.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Casey Callendrello <c1 at caseyc.net> wrote:

> Smoketesting looks good. Thanks!
>
>
> On 3/14/13 7:38 PM, Andy Isaacson wrote:
>
>> OK, I just did the same.  Let me know if it worked!
>>
>> -andy
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:15:40PM -0700, Casey Callendrello wrote:
>>
>>> I believe Leif did, with perl -pi
>>> -c
>>>
>>> On 3/14/13 7:12 PM, Andy Isaacson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any idea who did this hack?  I'm looking at the mediawiki install and
>>>> there are several hundred places where "wpTextbox1" appears, I'm loathe
>>>> to change them manually.  Seems likely to break something.
>>>>
>>>> (It's a great hack which we totally should reinstate.)
>>>>
>>>> -andy
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:08:46PM -0700, Casey Callendrello wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I meant that we used to have the wpTextbox2 fix active, but it has
>>>>> gone away. It is security by obscurity of the worst sort, but it
>>>>> works (for now).
>>>>> -c
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/14/13 3:44 PM, miloh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you figure out another fix, pass it along to SudoRoom,  they run a
>>>>>> mediawiki install that is also under sustained spammer barrage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Casey Callendrello <c1 at caseyc.net>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A while ago, we stopped wikipedia spam by renaming the name of the
>>>>>>> <textbox>
>>>>>>> tag from wpTextbox1 to wpTextbox2.  That seems to have been lost,
>>>>>>> and we're
>>>>>>> getting a lot of spam again.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can someone with access to noisebridge.net do that? plz thx.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --Casey
>>>>>>>
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