https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48491
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Bug ID: 48491
Summary: Deprecate the use of wgSpamRegex in
InitialiseSettings.php in favor of AbuseFilter filters
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Site requests
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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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.
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