Last modified: 2013-07-25 09:47:35 UTC
From <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.txt>: --- 'wgSpamRegex' => array( # added dvd thingy against many spamming idiots 2007-05-02 river # Removed, 2007-05-15 -- TS 'default' => array( '/overflow\s*:\s*auto\s*;\s*height\s*:|<div[^>]*font-size[^>]*font-color:\s*transparent[^>]*>/i', '/avril\.on\.nimp\.org/i', // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Hochitup '/\.on\.nimp\.org/i', // per MrZ-man 2008-11-02 -- brion // bug 15063, these won't last: '/<TR>(<TD BGCOLOR=["\']?#......["\']?>(\.|We|are|Anonymous|)+<\/TD>){20,}<\/TR>/i', '/<table>.+?(<td bgcolor.+?){400,}.+?<\/table>/i', // Weird thingy http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hellboy:_Sword_of_Storms&oldid=245477898&diff=prev '/<span onmouseover="_tipon/', // Reported on id.wikipedia.org 2008-12-17 Tim '/FIELD_MESSAGE_/', // Plaintext link spam https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16597 '/[wｗ]{3}[\.．][aＡａ][nｎ][oｏ]ｎ[tＴ][aａ][lｌ][kｋ][\.．][cｃ][oｏ][mｍ]/ui', ), # Multiple requests on IRC -- TS 2006-07-11 'commonswiki' => '/overflow\s*:\s*auto\s*;\s*height\s*:|kryptonazi|freizeit-diktator/i', # yoniDeBest on IRC -- TS 2007-04-16 # removed upon yoni's request 'hewiki' => '/kazach/i', ), --- It looks like we now log SpamRegex hits. A shell user should take a look at those at some point and figure out whether we still need all of these rules, particularly now that we have AbuseFilter (locally and globally), which has on-wiki logging and controls.
