[ANN] wiki lockdown

[Joseph Kubik]

So here's a strange idea.
Could you use the mediawiki RSS feed feature, email the rss changes to an
email account running some spam filter. Then if the filter alerts, use that
as a basis to revert the wiki edit?

-Joseph-
P.S. you should try this rock, it's killer!

On 10/4/05, Sy Ali <sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> On 10/4/05, Tro <troworld-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Monday October 3 2005 23:05, Sy Ali wrote:
> > > Ok.. I played around with it. Is there some special kind of chicken I
> > > should sacrifice to make pages editable at all after installing it?
> > > My various spam blacklists are all empty/renamed and when this
> > > extension is installed.. editing any page just gives a totally blank
> > > result when attempting a save.
> >
> > I wasn't the one installing, so I can't help you, sorry. It shouldn't
> give a
> > blank result. It simply runs a regex against an entire edit. If it
> matches a
> > bad url, it will show a "this change was blocked" page; otherwise, it
> doesn't
> > interfere.
> >
> > I do remember that the predefined wikipedia/mediawiki blacklist that's
> > supposed to be used by default caused problems and had to be disabled.
>
> Curiously, I was _only_ able to get the wikimedia blacklist to work.
> I'll revisit it at a later point. Unfortunately this won't solve the
> present problem, since it seems to be engineered to only deface and
> not actually change pageranking or the like.
>
> And of course something as important as a spam filter isn't natively
> supported by the wiki.. and of course it wouldn't actually work as
> advertised either.. I can only use one single blacklist. =/
>
> Well.. I'll revisit things later.. and hopefully I can get chongqed's
> list to work, and also use the database page to work. Bleh.
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