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This page is not clear enough. It seems like it has been writen for people who already know what's going on with all that spam that the page is talking about. I have read the introduction, and still i can not understand what is going on and why URLs are being deleted on our he:wikipedia. 09:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] "Requests for listing" section links go nowhere
*[[#Proposed_additions|Proposed additions]] - request a link to be added to the spam blacklist *[[#Proposed_removals|Proposed removals]] - request a link to be '''removed''' from the spam blacklist *[[#Troubleshooting_and_problems|Troubleshooting and problems]] - having problems editing an article, other problem with the spam blacklist. This is '''not for requesting removal, for that see [[#Proposed_removals|Proposed removals]].
[edit] Suggested changes
Based on recent MediaWiki software changes, some new tools, and questions raised by confused editors at Talk:Spam blacklist, here are some text additions I propose for the Spam blacklist/About page. My wording here is rough and should be improved for clarity:
[edit] Blacklists and whitelists built into MediaWiki
- MediaWiki software now has the following features with which to mitigate spam:
- The Wikimedia Foundation's global Spam blacklist on meta:
- MediaWiki's software filters prevent links to any blacklisted domain to be added to any page on any project that uses this blacklist. It is impossible to save edits to any page that contains a links to blacklisted domain.
- Applicability:
- All 700+ Wikimedia Foundation projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc) in all languages
- Other unaffiliated wikis (such as all Wikia sites) that run on MediaWiki software and incorporate Wikimedia's global spam blacklist in their own spam filtering
- Domains normally are only listed if they have been spammed to at least two Wikimedia sites.
- URL redirect domains should be blacklisted here since they are often used to bypass spam filtering. They can also be used to manipulate readers into visiting phishing or sites that exploit browser vulnerabilities. Editors that wish to link to a non-blacklisted site via an intermediate URL redirect domain (such as tinyurl.com) should instead link directly to the actual site, not the redirect address.
- Domains to be blacklisted should be listed and discussed first at Talk:Spam blacklist
- Addition to or removal from the spam blacklist can be done by any Meta-Wiki administrator.
- Each wiki running the current version of the MediaWiki software can also blacklist a domain locally. The local page name for the local blacklist is typically [[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist]]
- Applicability: links locally blacklisted domains are only blocked on the local wiki where they've been blacklisted
- Addition to or removal from a local spam blacklist can be done by any administrator on that wiki.
- Each wiki running MediaWiki software can also whitelist a domain, subdomain or individual web page locally. The local page name for the local blacklist is typically [[MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist]]. Whitelist entries override local and global blacklist filters.
- Applicability: addresses locally whitelisted can be added to pages on that wiki but not on any others.
- Addition to or removal from a local spam whitelist can be done by any administrator on that wiki.
- The Wikimedia Foundation's global Spam blacklist on meta:
[edit] Tools for finding cross-wiki spam
- 1. Eagle 101's cross-wiki search tool searches the largest Wikipedias for instances of a particular domain. Users can specify the number of projects they wish to search from 1 (just the largest, en.wikipedia) to the 57 largest.
- 2. Luxo's cross-wiki contribution search tool searches all 700+ foundation projects for contributions by a given IP or username. A maximum of 20 edits per project are shown; full user edit histories for a given project can be obtained by clicking on the link to that project from the report:
- This tool occasionally miss some contributions if there are MySQL problems.
- 3. A specified domain or subdomain on any Wikimedia project can be searched on that wiki by using the "External links" tool ([[Special:Linksearch]]) found on the list of special pages ([[Special:Specialpages]]). A link to the Special pages is found in the left-hand column of each wiki page in the "toolbox" section. (The names, "Special pages", "toolbox" and "External links" will vary by language and project.)
