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Wiki spamming

Postby Hooray » Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:20 pm

The wiki is seeing tons of spam, Red Leader has been fighting most of it - but it's too much work to handle manually like this - are the blacklist extensions working correctly, or did the mediawiki software get updated and some things slipped through ?


http://wiki.flightgear.org/Special:Log/delete
http://wiki.flightgear.org/MediaWiki:Titleblacklist
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Re: Wiki spamming

Postby Johan G » Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:41 pm

There is a regular expression for phone numbers in 1-8??-* form (*1-8[0-9]{2}-.*) which they seem to have worked around. Maybe that could be expanded to be less strict.
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Re: Wiki spamming

Postby Hooray » Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:04 pm

Thanks for updating the black list
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Re: Wiki spamming

Postby Johan G » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:25 pm

I did not really update it; I only put similar things together and added a more accessible link to the regex syntax docs.

Edit: I have now replaced the other regexes with the most complicate regex I have written yet. The docs for the particular regex syntax and this excellent online regex tester was a great help. :)
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