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== Anti-spam measures ==
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Since the [[Doom Wiki:Departure_from_Wikia|parting of ways]] with the Doom Wiki's previous host, management of anti-spam technological measures has become the sole responsibility of the wiki administrators. To this end, many such measures have been implemented, which involve both manual and automated interventions. Most automated measures can be escaped by registering an account, and others by having a confirmed email address.
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If you find you are being limited in your legitimate editing activities by any of the anti-spam measures, you should contact an administrator (see the Useful Pages section below).
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=== Passive and manual measures ===
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* The [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs Flagged Revisions] extension, which allows for and encourages edit patrolling and quality assurance.
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* The [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke Nuke] extension, which allows an admin to mass delete pages.
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* A [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist spam blacklist] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist title blacklist] both exist to manually block frequent topics and forms of spam.
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=== Automated blocking ===
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* DNS blacklisting is performed against unregistered users. The [http://dnsbl.tornevall.org Tornevall DNS Blacklist] is currently used for this purpose.
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* Title blacklists are automatically updated against the MediaWiki Foundation's global blacklist.
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock Tor exit nodes] are detected and blocked from editing for unregistered users.
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* The [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter AbuseFilter] extension, which performs automated denial of service to users who are behaving like bots based on powerful filters defined by the administrators. This can include anything from simple denial of the action requested to automatic banning.
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiBot AntiBot] plugin framework.
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* The [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof AntiSpoof] extension disallows creation of certain usernames that bots and human spammers find attractive.
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit ConfirmEdit] provides a strong captcha in the form of a randomized question that must be accurately answered, which bots and even human spammers are unlikely to be able to answer.
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam SimpleAntiSpam] is an older extension which blocks some bots by use of an invisible field on the edit form. If that form has any text entered into it, an edit will be denied. Unfortunately most bots are too smart for this now.
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== Useful pages ==
 
== Useful pages ==
  

Revision as of 23:40, 4 July 2012

Anti-spam measures

Since the parting of ways with the Doom Wiki's previous host, management of anti-spam technological measures has become the sole responsibility of the wiki administrators. To this end, many such measures have been implemented, which involve both manual and automated interventions. Most automated measures can be escaped by registering an account, and others by having a confirmed email address.

If you find you are being limited in your legitimate editing activities by any of the anti-spam measures, you should contact an administrator (see the Useful Pages section below).

Passive and manual measures

  • The Flagged Revisions extension, which allows for and encourages edit patrolling and quality assurance.
  • The Nuke extension, which allows an admin to mass delete pages.
  • A spam blacklist and title blacklist both exist to manually block frequent topics and forms of spam.

Automated blocking

  • DNS blacklisting is performed against unregistered users. The Tornevall DNS Blacklist is currently used for this purpose.
  • Title blacklists are automatically updated against the MediaWiki Foundation's global blacklist.
  • Tor exit nodes are detected and blocked from editing for unregistered users.
  • The AbuseFilter extension, which performs automated denial of service to users who are behaving like bots based on powerful filters defined by the administrators. This can include anything from simple denial of the action requested to automatic banning.
  • AntiBot plugin framework.
  • The AntiSpoof extension disallows creation of certain usernames that bots and human spammers find attractive.
  • ConfirmEdit provides a strong captcha in the form of a randomized question that must be accurately answered, which bots and even human spammers are unlikely to be able to answer.
  • SimpleAntiSpam is an older extension which blocks some bots by use of an invisible field on the edit form. If that form has any text entered into it, an edit will be denied. Unfortunately most bots are too smart for this now.

Useful pages

Archive

See Doom Wiki:Spam/Archive for older discussion.