Infrastructure

OK, I'm reading some configurations and importing URL blacklists to prevent the spammer (or the two spammers) at the weekend.

Some task which would be useful:
1) after the weekend: remove the two added useragents from our blacklist. the 1) (with 3 in Apple or Webkit) is very likely fixed and the iPod one will have changed, too (I believe)
2) I'm reading a How-To prevent spam: please add the empty user agent as described at http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/UMassWiki:Blocking_Spam_In_Mediawiki#Blank_User_Agents to our .htaccess (although I haven't seen anybody with an empty user agent so far!)
3) The idea at http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/UMassWiki:Blocking_Spam_In_Mediawiki#ConfirmEdit describes how the extension ConfirmEdit (already installed) is to configure that new users only get to bothered with our questions either when registering or when adding URLs to any page (actually every spammer so far!)

I will expand the list if I'm finished with the list and/or find other ideas. As the spammers are only active on weekend and this is doable for me alone (interestingly) I'm marking that task with priority low...