Last modified: 2011-10-12 01:16:47 UTC
See the diff URL for a recent spam similar to the bot that's been visiting small wikis for a few months. This edit was 746KB long, which is a lot more than most of these wikis would find useful. Presumably the intention of the large spam was increase the cost of cleaning (time, money, performance). Another example is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Editing&curid=2841&diff=272016&oldid=271988 . Please add a maximum page size, configurable per wiki, to prevent this spam, and to improve the economics of spam-cleaning. And what would be a reasonable default value for this?
There is now a configurable absolute maximum limit, which defaults to 2MB. This has been around for a little while; resolving as fixed.
