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# Use the [http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ BadBehavior] extension.

# [[mw:Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protect the MainPage from editing]]

# Modify / set [[mw:Manual:$wgSpamRegex|wgSpamRegex]] to prevent content that is obvious spam.

There are many more techniques that can be implemented. There are a few extensions bundled with a download version of MediaWiki; described in the [[mw:Manual:Combating_spam]]. And you can see the extensions used on the MediaWiki website itself [[mw:Special:Version|MediaWiki.org]] such as

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* [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit#FancyCaptcha]]

* [[mw:Extension:AntiSpoof]]

* [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist]]

* [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist]] (and the blacklist used for wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist)

== Research ==

~~{| style="float:right;max-width:350px;"~~

[[File:Wikisym13-cluebot.pdf|550px|thumb|A paper on how Wikipedia combats spam, focusing on one particular bot: '''ClueBot NG'''.]]

| [[File:Wikisym13-cluebot.pdf]]

|-

| A paper on how Wikipedia combats spam, focusing on one particular bot: '''ClueBot NG'''.

|}

As of July 2017, the "Revision Scoring as a Service" research initiative has become a full-fledged team at WMF. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team

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[[Category:Wiki]]

[[Category:MediaWiki]]

[[Category:Security]]

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 # Use the [http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ BadBehavior] extension.
 # [[mw:Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protect the MainPage from editing]]
+# Modify / set [[mw:Manual:$wgSpamRegex|wgSpamRegex]] to prevent content that is obvious spam.
 There are many more techniques that can be implemented.  There are a few extensions bundled with a download version of MediaWiki; described in the [[mw:Manual:Combating_spam]]. And you can see the extensions used on the MediaWiki website itself [[mw:Special:Version|MediaWiki.org]] such as
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 * [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit#FancyCaptcha]]
 * [[mw:Extension:AntiSpoof]]
-* [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist]]
+* [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist]] (and the blacklist used for wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist)
 == Research ==
-{| style="float:right;max-width:350px;"
+[[File:Wikisym13-cluebot.pdf|550px|thumb|A paper on how Wikipedia combats spam, focusing on one particular bot: '''ClueBot NG'''.]]
-| [[File:Wikisym13-cluebot.pdf]]
-|-
-| A paper on how Wikipedia combats spam, focusing on one particular bot: '''ClueBot NG'''.
-|}
 As of July 2017, the "Revision Scoring as a Service" research initiative has become a full-fledged team at WMF. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team
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 [[Category:Wiki]]
+[[Category:MediaWiki]]
+[[Category:Security]]