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Tag: Akismet

MediaWiki spam is such a headache

MediaWiki, like any other popular software product (that accepts user input), has become a massive target for spam. Now I’m not talking about vandals running around on Wikipedia trying to convince you that African Elephant population has tripled in 6 months. I’m talking about plain old spammers. Just like email spammers and comment spammers on…

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Spotting comment spam

Here at Snowulf, we get a LOT of comment spam.  On average we receive 48 spam comments a day (Thanks Akismet for the stats), most of these are to old articles and immediately dropped.  However, a few are to newer articles and we manually review them.  Most are fairly obviously spam, with links to hideous…

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