Last modified: 2014-07-26 16:45:11 UTC
I am not sure whether this is a case of the instructions being wrong, or something is broken, or that it doesn't work on meta's implementation of a global blacklist. Instructions at [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist#Blacklist syntax]] state that a caret can be used to match the start of a blacklist regex <quote> "The '^' and '$' anchors match the beginning and end of the domain name, not the beginning and end of the URL." </quote> Recently this methodology was used at meta[1] in an attempt to lessen the collateral damage of a block on t.co" urls (which are routinely used to spam). [[m:User:COIBot/XWiki/t.co]]. However, it has been found that the "^t\.co\b" as tehregex has ot been effective and t.co domains have been able to be added. It would be useful if we could work out which of the three scenarios that we have so the proper fix can be requested. Thanks. [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spam_blacklist&diff=7630728&oldid=7593377&diffonly=yes
I guess it's difficult to fix it now because regexes are now merged (piped) first; people would modify instructions to "fix" it now... Maybe you can use (?<!-)\bt\.co\b?
The regex suggested while functional for a regex is unsuccessful in preventing addition of the link. [Tested by two people on two different wikis with linked being added]. So back to square one. So we are back to the situation that the spam blacklist is not completely functional for regex to prevent addition of just t.co ^t\.co\b FAIL (?<!-)\bt\.co\b FAIL
(In reply to billinghurst from comment #2) > The regex suggested while functional for a regex is unsuccessful in > preventing addition of the link. [Tested by two people on two different > wikis with linked being added]. So back to square one. > > So we are back to the situation that the spam blacklist is not completely > functional for regex to prevent addition of just t.co > > ^t\.co\b FAIL > (?<!-)\bt\.co\b FAIL In my test, [[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist]]: #<pre> google (?<!-)\bt\.co\b baidu #</pre> Link: http://t.co/abc and it says: The following text is what triggered our spam filter: t.co ... so it works for me?
Yepp, it works. It didn't last time probably because the list was not updated when it was tested. The documentation at mww is wrong.
