AntiWikiSpamPlugin

Under Development in the DEVELOP Branch, untested with Cairo

This plugin attempts to reduce the instance of Wiki Spam by using the MoinMoin AntiSpamGlobalSolution regex's

to manually update the list, click here

TODO list

1. refuse to save a topic if the text contains a matching string - DONE

• need to make the Oops page better

1. automatically update the regex list from the configured source

• either using a rest based url (DONE), a command line, or like Moin Moin, onSave, if the list is determined to be too out of date (DONE)

1. consider mutliple source lists that are then merged (Though ThomasWaldemann is currently doing this work for us Thanks )
2. have a local list to allow for quick responses - DONE

• and then provide a plain text version of this to be merged back

1. add topic permissions to the spam topics, while filtering them out when using them for regex's

Plugin Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %INTERWIKIPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
• Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = prevents registered Wiki Spam from being saved

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
• Set DEBUG = 0

• where to get the regex list to check for
• Set ANTISPAMREGEXLISTURL = http://arch.thinkmo.de/cgi-bin/spam-merge
• Set ANTISPAMREGEXLISTTOPIC = AntiWikiSpamPluginList^?
• time in minutes between attempts to get a new version of the list
• Set GETLISTTIMEOUT = 60
• Local spam list (checked before the larger shared one)
• Set LOCALANTISPAMREGEXLISTTOPIC = LocalAntiWikiSpamPluginList^?

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip AntiWikiSpamPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/AntiWikiSpamPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  data/TWiki/AntiWikiSpamPlugin.txt,v	Plugin topic repository
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/AntiWikiSpamPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module

• (Dakar) Visit configure in your TWiki installation, and enable the plugin in the {Plugins} section.
• Test if the installation was successful:
• enter samples here

Plugin Info

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit - 22 Aug 2005