AW: [Mediawiki-l] Major Spam Problems

Mon Nov 7 09:53:53 UTC 2005

Maybe it will help to include the following lin into Localsettings.php:

$wgSpamRegex="/overflow:auto/";

Regards
Karl Kirst

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> Von: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org]Im Auftrag von WikiSysop
> Gesendet: Montag, 7. November 2005 05:19
> An: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
> Betreff: [Mediawiki-l] Major Spam Problems
>
>
> I am running MediaWiki 1.5.1 on www.drumcorpswiki.com and over the last
> two weeks or so, I've begun having major spam problems.  It seems
> someone (a bot possibly?) is creating a user account and then editing
> many pages to include spam link and/or a hidden div section.  Each time,
> I have to block the user and rollback all of the changes.  Has there
> been a fix to the problem?  Please see the recent changes on the site to
> get an idea of what I've been up against.
>
> Thanks for any assistance anyone may provide,
>
> Harlan Landes
>
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