Re: Wiki spam heuristic proposal

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:30:23AM -0700, Kevin Reid wrote:
> How about rejecting on the server any edits (by non-admininstrators)  
> to wiki.erights.org which create new pages whose names end in "/" or  
> contain ".php"? It seems like nearly all of the "fake message"/text  
> spam posts have one of these properties, and stopping them at the  
> point of creation would eliminate a lot of the need for created-but- 
> protected pages.

That sounds like a good idea.  Is anyone familiar with the workings of
MediaWiki to try this out?

Best regards,

James