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[edit] SpammerBlockPattern

[edit] Introduction

• The following Regex fragment list came from scraping affiliate marketing spam
• The most useful regex fragment is height:\s*\dpx
• The list minimizes domain names since they change constantly
• The list is maintained with a regex editor: http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/
• The list can be used as a
  • spam blacklist [1]
  • guide for spam search
  • regular expression ($wgSpamRegex = "/frag₁|frag₂|...|frag_n/i";) in LocalSettings.php
• More details at KatrinaHelp.info [2],[3]
  • Bot bulk spam posting has dropped 99% since installing the list.

[edit] Regex fragment list

• http://www.myseattle.com/mediawiki/wgSpamRegexList.txt