User talk:Dave Nattriss
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[edit] MediaWiki anti-spam
Hi Dave
Well done for upgrading to MediaWiki software. You'll find this is a bit more spam-proof tham that wakka-wiki you were running before, although wiki spam is still a problem for mediawiki installations. Did you deploy any of these Anti-spam Features? I'd particularly recommend pasting in the large example from the $wgSpamRegex documentation into your localsettings.php file. That's a very easy way of fending off quite a lot of wiki spam.
-- Halz 14:09, 23 July 2007 (BST)
- Any thoughts on that?
- You might also consider doing a 'block user' of User:Dangsiji who has done a couple of spamming runs on your wiki here now.
- In yesterday's attack he left links to lots of other wikis with similar spam: See near the top of this revision. This was interesting. Not sure how prevalent that kind of attack is, but yesterday I went and reverted the spam on all the various linked wikis too, in attempt to punch a hole in his google ranking game.
- ...But you should just block him (since you are sysop)
- -- Halz 10:38, 14 August 2007 (BST)
Hey - I've put in the SpamRegex, so thanks for that. Will block Dangsiji if he strikes again.
- I have created Template:Delete and used it to lable some spam. Only sysop users can actually delete a page (semi-permenantly). It might help to get rid of these spammers if you do so -- Halz 17:15, 5 September 2007 (BST)
- Well done with the recent spam clean-up. Looks like you've deleted most of it. Just a couple of talk pages left over that I could see (I've labelled them with Template:Delete. -- Halz 10:26, 29 February 2008 (GMT)
[edit] Suggestion: Recent changes box
You could edit the Main Page and put in something like this:
[edit] Recent Changes
19 November 2008
- (diff) (hist) . . December 1st 2008; 16:00 . . (+46) . . Franck (Talk | contribs)
- (diff) (hist) . . m October 14th 2008; 10:28 . . (-1) . . Matt Raines (Talk | contribs) (Typo)
- (diff) (hist) . . m December 1st 2008; 10:27 . . (+1) . . Matt Raines (Talk | contribs) (Correct link to previous meeting)
17 November 2008
- (diff) (hist) . . Current events; 22:25 . . (0) . . Matt Raines (Talk | contribs) (November meeting has been and gone)
- (diff) (hist) . . December 4th 2008; 22:25 . . (+76) . . Matt Raines (Talk | contribs) (Talk for December meeting (REST using reflection))
It's a 'Recent Changes' box, which will illustrate to all your users that this wiki is a live collaboration space... which is getting spammed
-- Halz 16:18, 27 November 2007 (GMT)

