Extension:BlockTitles

The BlockTitles extension allows Mediawiki administrators to block the creation, or editing, of articles with particular title names. For example, a commmon spam technique is to post an article that has the name of a URL. Using this tool can prevent these articles from being created.

License
Copyright 2006 Travis Derouin

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307  USA

Author
Travis Derouin ( travis @ wikihow.com)

Pre-requisites
This extension was tested with MediaWiki 1.6.7 and Mediawiki 1.8.2.

Installation
Get the source vi SVN.

In your MediaWiki LocalSettings.php, add the following line some place towards the bottom of the file:

require_once("$IP/extensions/BlockTitles/BlockTitles.php");

Configuration
Simply add any regular expressions you want to the variable $wgBlockTitlePatterns in BlockTitles.php. By default there are no set patterns.

Bugs and enhancements
Bugs or feature requests can be sent to the author at travis @ wikihow.com.