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i'm not really sure that this spam blacklist works ... could someone without admin right try entering links to one of the urls in the blacklist ? -- [[User:Dionoea|Dionoea]] 01:01, 27 January 2006 (CET)

: The spam blacklist automatically hides changes which include a links to one of the sites mentioned on the blacklist (I think that's what happens - I'm not too sure myself). The page is set as protected so the spammers don't clear the list (or post spam on it ;).
: Meta has some stuff on how the list works: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist
: --[[User:H2g2bob|H2g2bob]] 13:39, 27 January 2006 (CET)
:ps- it uses regex, so if you know regex you can do some wacky matching stuff. Otherwise just use \. instred of dots.
:pps - Full desctiption [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension here (meta-wiki)]

...I tested this under an alt account without admin privileges. I was able to add a dozen links listed on the SpamBlacklist [//wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=Sandbox&oldid=27668][//wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=Sandbox&oldid=27662] as well as "blacklisted words within URLs" [//wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=Sandbox&oldid=27669] to the [[Sandbox]] page without anything more than a CAPTCHA. It doesn't feel like this will actually ward off spam. {{User:DoesItReallyMatter/real_sig}} 21:00, 27 December 2014 (CET)

== Can't edit the spam blacklist ==

I can't edit the SpamBlacklist because the word "x&zwj;a&zwj;n&zwj;a&zwj;x&zwj;" triggers some filter; adding that word to ''any'' page prevents the edit from saving, even though I have admin privileges.<br />
Here I only sidestepped this by inserting invisible HTML entities within the word.

Does anybody have a clue what this is about or how to fix this? {{User:DoesItReallyMatter/real_sig}} 21:07, 27 December 2014 (CET)
:Hmm. "s&zwj;e&zwj;o" is also on the filter list. I removed all links containing those words [//wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=Sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=28263 here], fixed a regular-expression syntax error [//wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=Sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=28265 here] (mistakenly a newline rather than a backslash-escape), then rolled my edits back because I wasn't sure what to do at that point. Maybe I'll have a better idea later.
:How ironic that I can't put certain words on a blacklist... {{User:DoesItReallyMatter/real_sig}} 14:50, 6 February 2015 (CET)