I'm not sure exactly what spam filters are being used on the codex Wiki install, but there are a few spam extensions that could be installed and the extensive spam lists from wikipedia could be used to at least slow down the worst of the spam.<div>
<br></div><div>The spam lists can be updated on a special wiki page too so updating is easy. Quite handy.<br><div><br></div><div>There is an article on mediawiki about combatting spam: <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam</a><br>
<div><br></div><div>There's the Spamblacklist extension:</div><div><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist"></a>Example spam blacklist from Wikipedia:</div>
<div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist"></a>and another example for all the wikimedia sites:</div>
<div><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist"></a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 00:15, Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernard.d.tremblay@gmail.com">bernard.d.tremblay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 18/05/2010 6:18 AM, mrmist wrote:<br>
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In message <<a href="mailto:4BF27EDC.9060908@htcomp.net" target="_blank">4BF27EDC.9060908@htcomp.net</a>>, Charles K. Clarkson <<a href="mailto:cclarkson@htcomp.net" target="_blank">cclarkson@htcomp.net</a>> writes<br>
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Actually another useful thing to do would be to keep an occasional eye on the recent changes list to watch for any other spam hits starting, because this guy did a few test pages before launching into the heavy spam. The earliest it gets blocked the less mess there is.<br>
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Hear, hear!<br>
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