Translations:Manual:Combating spam/71/en

Much of the most problematic spam received on MediaWiki sites comes from addresses long known by other webmasters as bot or open proxy sites, though there's only anecdotal evidence for this. These bots typically generate large numbers of automated registrations to forum sites, comment spam to blogs and page vandalism to wikis: most often linkspam, although existing content is sometimes blanked, prepended with random gibberish characters or edited in such a way as to break existing Unicode text.