Last modified: 2006-06-22 20:10:18 UTC
Having one global spam blacklist ([[meta:Spam blacklist]]) for all MediaWiki-powered wikis on the Internet is difficult. It would be useful to have an option of limiting the effect of some entries to e.g. only Wikimedia sites (or the other way around, to all except Wikimedia sites).
Created attachment 1961 [details] A quick draft of an implementation An implementation (probably not perfect) of such behavior: Every blacklist entry can be marked with a special comment (beginning with an exclamation mark) which limits its effect to either ONLY sites matching a given regexp, or to all EXCEPT sites matching that regexp. E.g. spammer1\.example\.org #!+ wikipedia.org$ # this spammer is blacklisted only on *.wikipedia.org This has the advantage of being at least basically backwards-compatible (sites using old version of SpamBlacklist still work filtering all entries ignoring the comments).
I've instead created a local whitelist, which local admins can edit at MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. It's in the same format as the main blacklist.
