[Openstreetmap] more wiki spam

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Mon Nov 7 20:54:08 GMT 2005


* @ 07/11/05 08:26:05 PM frank at hebbert.com wrote:
> More spam today.
> 
> I don't know who has admin status, but this looks like a quicker way
> to revert all changes by the spamming user, instead of normal users
> reverting page by page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_revert_a_page_to_an_earlier_version#Admins
> 
> As a possible prevention method, a change can be made to
> LocalSettings.php to turn on "SpamRegex" to block certain markup (this
> is suggested: $wgSpamRegex="/<div/", since most people don't use div
> in their wiki pages). Can we have this on the OSM wiki?


Yes, I've done the div hack as above. This would catch all the spam I've
seen so far, if it doesn't work then I'll try the other things you
listed - thanks for doing so :-)

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/




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