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:

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)