Last modified: 2011-01-25 01:42:45 UTC
Hello all, please create a global Titleblacklist like the http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist Spam Blacklist on http://meta.wikimedia.org/ Meta. This would be very useful to catch pages created by spambots just like index.php [[mw:Extension:Titleblacklist]] contains code to add a blacklist from meta Many thanks in advance, Elisabeth Anderl [[:wikt:is:Notandi:Spacebirdy]]
small correction: the page with code is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist (and link in signature should be [[is:wikt:Notandi:Spacebirdy]] :) )
The page that can be used for this is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Title_blacklist (nameing similar to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist) already created and protected (thanks enhydra (Kalan) for suggesting this)
What's with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Index.php etc.? Some users should be allowed to start these pages if this extension should be added. But imo a static list which can be seen by the owner of this bot is useless (even a hidden page wouldn't prevent from those hundreds of thousands possibilities to combine letters, numbers and special characters). He'd change the code and we have to react. It the same problem which happened after e. g. de:wp has created a usernameblacklist [[de:MediaWiki:Usernameblacklist]]: The owner of this bot who has created thousands of vandalizing or insulting accounts changed the name of his accounts from Kneipenschläger or Igelvandalismus to KneipênschlägÉr http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Logbuch&limit=5&offset=76&type=block&user=FritzG&page=&pattern= or Ÿgelysmus http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Logbuch&limit=5&offset=86&type=block&user=FritzG&page=&pattern= and is still creating these accounts. It'd be a nice feature but imo wouldn't solve the problem. Kind regards DerHexer [[m:User:DerHexer]]
DerHexer: sorry, but we don't talk about list contents here, we just decide about the possibility to create the list itself. The further discussion about list contents can be located, for example, at [[m:talk:Title blacklist]].
Please note that index.php is only an example and that this bug does not only refer to it (also other pages could be added). (If there is a better way to stop the index.php spambots please apply it) Note: I have been bold here and am open for better solutions. Thanks
In my opinion it's not correct to take advantage of more than 700 wikis. If it would be possible to add exceptions (like index.php for mediawiki.org) I'd support it. Regards DerHexer
Title whitelist is implemented in r29435
*** Bug 12366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I thought this was already possible with $wgTitleBlacklistSources = array( 'type' => TBLSRC_URL, 'src' => 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Title_blacklist&action=raw', );
(In reply to comment #9) > I thought this was already possible with > > $wgTitleBlacklistSources = array( > 'type' => TBLSRC_URL, > 'src' => > 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Title_blacklist&action=raw', > ); > It *is* possible, not configured on Wikimedia yet.
Correct configuration lines: $wgTitleBlacklistSources = array( array( 'type' => TBLSRC_URL, 'src' => 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Title_blacklist&action=raw&tb_ver=1', ), );
Tim Starling configured it today.
