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For some thoughts about [[spambot]] hunting, see [[WikiProject:Junking bots]] <small>...didn't know where to lonk it --[[Wolf Peuker|Wolf]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 07:05, 13 October 2007 (EDT)</small> | For some thoughts about [[spambot]] hunting, see [[WikiProject:Junking bots]] <small>...didn't know where to lonk it --[[Wolf Peuker|Wolf]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 07:05, 13 October 2007 (EDT)</small> | ||
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We maintain a local blacklist at '''[[My spam blacklist]]'''. This is protected page that [[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Sysops]] can use to block offending link spam not caught by Level 1 and Level 2. There should be very few entries here, and NONE that contain the following: | We maintain a local blacklist at '''[[My spam blacklist]]'''. This is protected page that [[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Sysops]] can use to block offending link spam not caught by Level 1 and Level 2. There should be very few entries here, and NONE that contain the following: | ||
*Periods (full stop) '.' — periods, aka the 'full stop' have a special meaning in the regex syntax, and can cause the list to malfunction; | *Periods (full stop) '.' — periods, aka the 'full stop' have a special meaning in the regex syntax, and can cause the list to malfunction; | ||
*TLDs (top level domains) 'com, org, net' — these appear in virtually all [[:Category:United States|United States]] URLs, and are also extensively used in many (though not all) [[:Category: | *TLDs (top level domains) 'com, org, net' — these appear in virtually all [[:Category:United States of America|United States]] URLs, and are also extensively used in many (though not all) [[:Category:Country|countries]] around the [[:Category:Earth|world]], so provide no value to the blocking mechanism; | ||
*'http://www.' — the regex only checks valid URLs, so this is not necessary. | *'http://www.' — the regex only checks valid URLs, so this is not necessary. | ||
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==MediaWiki spam blacklist regex== | ==MediaWiki spam blacklist regex== | ||
According to the [https://phabricator.Wikimedia.org/diffusion/ESPB/browse/master/README readme] for the | According to the [https://phabricator.Wikimedia.org/diffusion/ESPB/browse/master/README readme] for the {{Mw|Extension:SpamBlacklist|MediaWiki spam blacklist extension}}, internally a single giant regular expression is formed using the lines from the blacklist file as follows: | ||
In simple terms: | In simple terms: | ||