[Mediawiki-l] Spam blacklist extension updated for long blacklists

Mon Sep 18 10:13:07 UTC 2006

Recently our main spam URL blacklist at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist has gotten too long for PHP's
regulation expressions library (PCRE) to allow. As a result, the check would
more-or-less silently fail.

I've updated the spam blacklist extension to split a long list into multiple
regexes, so it will handle the larger list without exploding.

Third-party MediaWiki sites using our default blacklist should consider updating
it from SVN if you've noticed the blacklist has stopped working for you.

The anonymous SVN checkout URL is still:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SpamBlacklist

You can also poke at the files in a human-readable fashion:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SpamBlacklist/

The cleanup.php script hasn't been tested yet for the update, so if you use it,
well, say something if it's borked. :)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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