The list from wikimedia does not contain a regexp that would block "Buy Viagra" 
accounts

--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Bill Traynor <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Bill Traynor <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues
> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" 
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 12:24 PM
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:57, Jake
> Ford<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > 1. Try pulling the Blacklist from Mediawiki or
> wikipedia using their URLs
> > like below.
> > 2. Instead of adding blacklist items to 'Project:Title
> blacklist' add them
> > to the special page 'Mediawiki:TitleBlacklist' (I am
> not sure if this will
> > help because I have added nothing to this page yet at
> my site.
> >
> > #TitleBlacklist extension
> > require_once(
> "{$IP}/extensions/TitleBlacklist/TitleBlacklist.php" );
> >
> > $wgTitleBlacklistSources = array(
> >    array(
> >         'type' => TBLSRC_LOCALPAGE,
> >         'src'  => 'Mediawiki:TitleBlacklist',
> >    ),
> >    array(
> >         'type' => TBLSRC_URL,
> >         'src'  =>
> > 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Title_blacklist&action=raw',
> >    ),
> >    array(
> >         'type' => TBLSRC_FILE,
> >         'src'  =>
> '/home/wikipedia/blacklists/titles',
> >    ),
> > );
> 
> Still no luck with the following:
> 
> # TitleBlacklist extension
> require_once(
> "{$IP}/extensions/TitleBlacklist/TitleBlacklist.php" );
> 
> $wgTitleBlacklistSources = array(
>    array(
>         'type' => TBLSRC_LOCALPAGE,
>         'src'  =>
> 'Mediawiki:TitleBlacklist',
>    ),
>    array(
>         'type' => TBLSRC_URL,
>         'src'  =>
> 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Title_blacklist&action=raw',
>    ),
> );
> 
> Mediawiki:TitleBlacklist
> \d*\sbuy\s.* <newaccountonly>
> 
> I also just commented out in TitleBlacklist.php the
> following:
> /** Array of title blacklist sources */
> #$wgTitleBlacklistSources = array();
> 
> The Localsettings.php overrides this anyway, I think.
> 
> I'm running 1.15.1, btw.
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > jake4d
> > [email protected]
> > 615.418.3858
> > www.debatrix.org
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Traynor [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:28 AM
> > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:48, Jake Ford<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I have been getting an average of 5 or 6 spam user
> accounts created per
> > day
> >> on my site of the "buy Viagra type. I just
> installed two extensions in the
> >> hope of blocking future attacks.
> >>
> >> 1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist
> >
> > I can't seem to get Title_Black list to work.  I've
> added the
> > extension and have added the following to
> LocalSettings.php:
> >
> > require_once(
> "{$IP}/extensions/TitleBlacklist/TitleBlacklist.php" );
> > $wgTitleBlacklistSources = array(
> > array(
> >         'type' => TBLSRC_LOCALPAGE,
> >         'src'  => 'Project:Title blacklist',
> >      ),
> > );
> >
> > I've set up Project: Title blacklist as follows:
> >
> > # This is a title blacklist. Titles and users that
> match a regular
> > expression here cannot be created.
> > # Use "#" for comments.
> > # This is case insensitive by default
> >
> > \d*\sbuy\s.*  <newaccountonly>
> >
> > Yet, I can still add account called "Buy Viagra" or
> whatever.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> >> 2. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist
> >
> >
> >
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