Talk:Spam blacklist
The associated page is used by the MediaWiki Spam Blacklist extension, and lists regular expressions which cannot be used in URLs in any page in Wikimedia Foundation projects (as well as many external wikis). Any Meta administrator can edit the spam blacklist; either manually or with SBHandler. For more information on what the spam blacklist is for, and the processes used here, please see Spam blacklist/About.
- Proposed additions
- Please provide evidence of spamming on several wikis. Spam that only affects a single project should go to that project's local blacklist. Exceptions include malicious domains and URL redirector/shortener services. Please follow this format. Please check back after submitting your report, there could be questions regarding your request.
- Proposed removals
- Please check our list of requests which repeatedly get declined. Typically, we do not remove domains from the spam blacklist in response to site-owners' requests. Instead, we de-blacklist sites when trusted, high-volume editors request the use of blacklisted links because of their value in support of our projects. Please consider whether requesting whitelisting on a specific wiki for a specific use is more appropriate - that is very often the case.
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- Troubleshooting and problems - If there is an error in the blacklist (i.e. a regex error) which is causing problems, please raise the issue here.
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- #wikimedia-external-linksconnect - Real-time IRC chat for co-ordination of activities related to maintenance of the blacklist.
- Whitelists
There is no global whitelist, so if you are seeking a whitelisting of a url at a wiki then please address such matters via use of the respectiveMediawiki talk:Spam-whitelistpage at that wiki, and you should consider the use of the template {{edit protected}} or its local equivalent to get attention to your edit.
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Proposed additions
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This section is for proposing that a website be blacklisted; add new entries at the bottom of the section, using the basic URL so that there is no link (example.com, not http://www.example.com). Provide links demonstrating widespread spamming by multiple users on multiple wikis. Completed requests will be marked as {{added}} or {{declined}} and archived. |
Cross wiki massage chair spam
- Link/text requested to be blacklisted:
thethaotaiphat.com.vn - Link/text requested to be blacklisted:
www.kingsport.vn - Link/text requested to be blacklisted:
kaitashi.com
- Re links see here. For the time being I've added these URLs to the nl:wiki spam blacklist (link). Please feel free to revert that when you're done. Regards, Wutsje (talk) 04:26, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
Proposed additions (Bot reported)
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This section is for domains which have been added to multiple wikis as observed by a bot.
These are automated reports, please check the records and the link thoroughly, it may report good links! For some more info, see Spam blacklist/Help#COIBot_reports. Reports will automatically be archived by the bot when they get stale (less than 5 links reported, which have not been edited in the last 7 days, and where the last editor is COIBot).
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COIBot
The LinkWatchers report domains meeting the following criteria:
- When a user mainly adds this link, and the link has not been used too much, and this user adds the link to more than 2 wikis
- When a user mainly adds links on one server, and links on the server have not been used too much, and this user adds the links to more than 2 wikis
- If ALL links are added by IPs, and the link is added to more than 1 wiki
- If a small range of IPs have a preference for this link (but it may also have been added by other users), and the link is added to more than 1 wiki.
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Proposed removals
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This section is for proposing that a website be unlisted; please add new entries at the bottom of the section.
Remember to provide the specific domain blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as See also recurring requests for repeatedly proposed (and refused) removals. Notes:
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Discussion
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sci-hub fake domains
- Beetstra, if I'm understanding the log correctly you added
\bsci-hub\.[a-z]+/(?!$). How would you feel about just blacklisting \bsci-hub\.[a-z]+\b (or something like that) and explicitly whitelisting sci-hub.(com|st|se|do) (the real domains). I'm seeing a LOT of fake sci-hub domains from the Drhusseinnet sock group that the current rule is missing...mostly from them just adding{{url|sci-hub.some.domain}}. See below for some cases I found:
sci-hub.ac
sci-hub.cc
sci-hub.es.ht
GeneralNotability (talk) 00:58, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
- Now that I've looked into it, this is more complicated than I thought...I didn't realize that sci-hub intentionally hops domains, so it's hard to tell what the "real" domains are. I'm not sure what the right approach is here. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:04, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
- OK, so we can't do this anymore and everything needs to go through whitelisting every single time. I have removed the rule, it is just a matter of time that we get really abusive false domains to hit this. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 05:26, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
- If they are hopping domains to avoid blocks and undertaking methods to allow abuse, just send it away, and let the wikis manage their whitelisting. {{ping}GeneralNotability}} we cannot whitelist globally. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:19, 8 November 2020 (UTC)