Translations:Manual:Combating spam/89/en

As most blacklist operators provide very limited software support (often targeted to non-wiki applications, such as phpBB or Wordpress), third-party adaptations of these clients have been built and deployed on some wikis to check spambots. As the same spambots create similar problems on most open-content websites, the worst offenders attacking MediaWiki sites will also be busily targeting thousands of non-wiki sites with spam in blog comments, forum posts and guestbook entries.