So Wikimon's been absolutely flooded with spambots... so lately I've spent more time deleting advertisements and banhammering accounts en masse, which led to me wishing I REALLY had a ban hammer. One that shot bullets.
You doesn't seem to have much in the way of protection. Consider these extensions? *SimpleAntiSpam - trivial, often works well *ForcePreview - good luck saving if they don't know to preview first *SpamBlacklist - set it up to use Wikimedia's lists and you catch a lot *AntiBot - an extensible framework, comes with one useful thing. Make sure you copy the plugin into the active directory else it won't do anything. Our modification of the genericFormEncoding.php: $wgHooks['EditFilterMerged'][] = 'AntiBot_GenericFormEncoding::onEditFilterMerged'; class AntiBot_GenericFormEncoding { function onEditFilterMerged( $editPage, $text, &$hookError ) { if ( !function_exists( 'apache_request_headers' ) ) { return true; } $headers = apache_request_headers(); if ( isset( $headers['Content-Type'] ) && $headers['Content-Type'] == 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' ) { global $wgUser; if ( !$wgUser->isAllowed( 'noratelimit' ) && !$wgUser->isAllowed( 'bot' )) { if ( AntiBot::trigger(__CLASS__) == 'fail' ) { return false; } } } return true; } }
You doesn't seem to have much in the way of protection. Consider these extensions? *SimpleAntiSpam (
*AbuseFilter - configurable blocks against particular behaviours. A couple of filters we use on WikiFur (use import on Special:AbuseFilter to apply): {"row":{"af_id":"1","af_pattern":"!(\"autoconfirmed\" in user_groups) &\r\nset_var('lc_added_lines',lcase(added_lines)) &\r\nset_var('lc_removed_lines',lcase(removed_lines)) &\r\n(\r\n count(\"http:\/\/\", lc_added_lines) > count(\"http:\/\/\", lc_removed_lines) + 7 &\r\n !count(\"<ref\", lc_added_lines) > count(\"<ref\", lc_removed_lines)\r\n)","af_user":"149","af_user_text":"GreenReaper","af_timestamp":"20091020073009","af_enabled":"1","af_comments":"Warn non-autoconfirmed users adding more than seven external links to an article at once. Those adding references are exempted from the number of external links restriction.","af_public_comments":"Link spamming by anonymous or recently-registered users","af_hidden":"0","af_hit_count":"5792","af_throttled":"0","af_deleted":"0","af_actions":"warn,tag","af_global":"0"},"actions":{"tag":{"action":"tag","parameters":["linkspam"]},"warn":{"action":"warn","parameters":["abusefilter-warning"]}}}
