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Report spam
Post on the discussion page for this topic to report spam/vandalism or to request a change to the Spam-blacklist or the Spam-whitelist,
Trends
- Post reports in reverse chronology - most recent at top
- Report spammed URLs here Spam patrol/urls
Recent reports
- 2012-04-21 - no new spam for 34 days
- 2012-04-17 - no new spam for 30 days
- 2012-03-17 - removed one spam page and blocked the spammer account +1
- 2012-03-16 - no new spam for 243 days
- 2011-07-13 - removed 2 spam links essaywritingservices\.org and blocked user Rahulmitchell
- 2011-07-12 - no new spam for 118 days
Previous reports
- 2011-03-22 - installed spambot defense Talk:Spam_patrol#Extension:ConfirmEdit_-_installation
- 2011-03-22 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 spambot username
- 2011-03-21 - blocked 1 spambot username
- 2011-03-21 - removed 3 spam pages, blocked 4 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-20 - no new spam x2
- 2011-03-20 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 spambot username
- 2011-03-20 - removed 4 spam pages, blocked 7 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-19 - removed 5 spam pages, blocked 6 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-18 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 spambot username
- 2011-03-18 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 spambot username
- 2011-03-18 - removed 7 spam pages, blocked 7 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-17 - removed 4 spam pages, blocked 4 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-17 - removed 5 spam pages, blocked 5 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-16 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 spambot username
- 2011-03-16 - removed 2 spam pages, blocked 5 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-16 - blocked 2 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-16 - removed 2 spam pages, blocked 2 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-16 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 3 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-15 - no new spam x1
- 2011-03-15 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 spambot username
- 2011-03-14 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 spambot username
- 2011-03-13 - no new spam x1
- 2011-03-13 - removed 2 spam pages, blocked 2 spambot usernames
- 2011-03-13 - no new spam x2
- 2011-03-12 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 username, recorded 22 spam urls
- 2011-03-12 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 username, recorded 12 spam urls
- 2011-03-11 - no new spam x1
- 2011-03-11 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 username, recorded 1 spam urls
- 2011-03-11 - no new spam x3
- 2011-03-11 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 username, recorded 1 spam urls
- 2011-03-11 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 username, recorded 16 spam urls, blocked 2 domains Blacklist
- 2011-03-11 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 username, recorded 16 spam urls
- 2011-03-11 - no new spam x1
- 2011-03-10 - removed 7 spam pages, blocked 7 usernames, blocked 4 high level domains Blacklist
- 2011-03-10 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 1 username
- 2011-03-09 - blocked ar domain Blacklist
- 2011-03-09 - removed 2 spam pages, blocked 2 usernames - recorded 39 spam urls
- 2011-03-09 - no new spam x1
- 2011-03-08 - removed 17 spam pages, blocked 17 usernames, blocked several URLs Blacklist
- 2011-03-06 - removed 2 spam pages, blocked 2 usernames
- 2011-03-04 - removed 3 spam pages, blocked 3 usernames
- 2011-03-04 - removed 1 spam page, blocked 3 usernames
- 2011-03-03 - removed 2 SEO spam pages, blocked 2 usernames, blocked 1 spammed URL Blacklist
- 2011-03-02 - no new spam x4
- 2011-02-24 - removed 1 insurance spam page and blocked 1 username
- 2011-02-22 - no new spam x2
- 2011-02-18 - blocked 1 username
- 2011-02-17 - removed 1 spam page and blocked 1 username
- 2011-02-14 - no new spam x1
- 2011-02-13 - removed 2 insurance spam pages and blocked 2 usersnames
- 2011-02-12 - no new spam x1
- 2011-02-09 - removed 9 insurance spam pages and blocked 9 usersnames
- 2011-02-08 - removed 4 insurance spam pages and blocked 4 usersnames
- 2011-02-07 - no new spam x15
- 2011-01-10 - removed Bangorhotel spam and blocked user Bangorhotel
- 2011-01-04 - no new spam x20
- 2010-11-23 - removed Firestorm page and user marketing text
- 2010-11-21 - no new spam x7
- 2010-11-14 - removed 3 spam posts, blocked user Alyradowop, blocked .co.cc Blacklist
- 2010-11-13 - no new spam x32
- 2010-10-17 - removed spam "Barnstable County (MA" - blocked user "Bettytaylor23"
- 2010-10-15 - no new spam x101
- 2010-06-17 - no new spam x5 - blocked user showing suspicious activity User talk:AssaSom
- 2010-06-04 - removed spam from this page and blocked user User:Jstone626 - removed IP block, might be spoofinng
- 2010-05-31 - removed spam from Main page and blocked user User:Enrikem
- 2010-05-24 - no new spam x25
- 2010-04-17 - removed IP block on user assacom - was spoofing valid IP
- 2010-04-16 - removed spam and blocked user assacom
- 2010-04-15 - no new spam x17
- 2010-02-27 - User:jeffmace deleted spam "Dfadsf" - no new spam x1
- 2010-02-23 - no new spam x49
- 2010-01-29 - removed spam/gibberish from 18 pages - flagged 9 pages for review Category:Vandalism - monitoring 172.31.2.9
- 2010-01-29 - Ben Hands changed LocalSettings.php to require login ($wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgShowIPinHeader = false;)
- 2010-01-29 - vandal spoofing IP 172.31.2.9
- 2010-01-28 - no new spam x16
- 2010-01-25 - Ben Hands set script limits to 64MB in php.ini and localsettings.php to prevent out of memory errors
- 2010-01-22 - Ben Hands (NPR SysAdmin) inactivated the blacklist Regex file - it was interfering with Forms creation
- Ben confirmed that external blacklists were not activated.
- The SpamBlacklist extension is still active (Spam-blacklist and Spam-whitelist pages are still working)
- 2010-01-20 first day of spam reports
AntiSpam resources
Extensions
- SpamBlacklist - installed
- TitleBlacklist - allows wiki administrators to block the creation, movement and upload of pages which title matches one or more regular expressions, as well as blocking creation of accounts with matching usernames
- SimpleAntiSpam - adds a hidden form field to the edit page as an anti-spam/anti-bot check
- ConfirmEdit - enables a simple text Captcha that will probably catch most bots
- Addons:
- FancyCaptcha
- VisualMathCaptcha
- reCAPTCHA
- Bad Behavior - automatically blocks harvesters, spam bots, and other funky stuff.
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