Extension:SpamDiffTool

MediaWiki extensions manual

SpamDiffTool Release status: stable
Implementation	User activity , Page action
Description	Allows privileged users to add entries to the spam blacklist right off of a diff page
Author(s)	Travis Derouin Alexandre Emsenhuber Jack Phoenix
Latest version	1.6
MediaWiki	1.39+
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Parameters $wgSpamBlacklistArticle
Hooks used DifferenceEngineViewHeader
Quarterly downloads	0
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The SpamDiffTool extension allows users to add URLs to the SpamBlacklist extension easily without learning how to format entries for the blacklist and copy and paste, etc.

By inserting a link on each diff page, if an editor sees that a given page has been the victim of spam, they can click on "add to spam", which extracts all of the URLs the spammer has placed on the page, going back over their most recent edits on the article (similar to Rollback). Then, for each URL detected, the tool prompts the user the degree to which they want to blacklist the URL. The options are block:

1. all links from the domain
2. all links from the specific subdomain
3. all links from the subdirectory and subdomain
4. nothing - don't add this to the blacklist

The idea is to try to streamline the process of cleaning up spam, rolling back spam edits and blocking users. When the spam addition process is finished, the user is taken back to the diff page they were on to begin with. From there, they can rollback the edits as required.

Pre-requisites

This extension was tested with MediaWiki 1.42. You must have the SpamBlacklist extension already installed for this extension to do anything, because this is merely a more graphical, easier-to-use front-end for the functionality provided by SpamBlacklist.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted SpamDiffTool folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/SpamDiffTool
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'SpamDiffTool' );
  

• Configure as required
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

To specify which article you use as a spam block list, change the $wgSpamBlacklistArticle variable in your wiki's LocalSettings.php . The default is to use the page called Project:Spam Blacklist.

Bugs and enhancements

Bugs or feature requests can be sent via Phabricator. There is a good chance the regular expressions are not 100% perfect.

See also

• Extension:SpamBlacklist