fighting spam posts in MediaWiki

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Overview
This page relates to fighting spam postings, otherwise known as wikispam, in MediaWiki.

Links

 * MediaWiki documentation
 * Wiki Spam: a detailed explanation of the problem
 * Anti-spam Features: simple built-in regex blacklist
 * SpamBlacklist extension: more powerful than the built-in regex blacklist. The README file explains most of it, but doesn't make it clear that there are two files you need to install: SpamBlacklist.php and SpamBlacklist_body.php
 * Please feel free to make use of the spam blacklist on HypertWiki

Projects

 * SpamFerret: in development