[OSDC Israel] Wiki spam filters

[Shlomi Fish]

On Monday 31 July 2006 15:55, Tal Kelrich wrote:
> Maybe offtopic, but annoys me.
> some spam engines seem to test the OSDC wiki by posting series of
> numbers of about 23 digits in length.
> cleaning this up manually is a pain, any chance of it being added to
> the bot there?

Two measures were taken:

1. An anti-number spam regex.

2. We prohibited edits by non-registered users. This has reduced spam 
considerably and the numbers spam completely.

For more information see:

http://www.iglu.org.il/wiki/index.php/Hamakor_Servers/MediaWikis_Spam_Fighting

And:

http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/web/which-wiki/update-2006-07/

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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