[dev-context] Options that will work for blocking this spammer.

"-tag block to hide links invisibly on the page. (Many of them have left out the links, but nearly all of them have included the tag.) * Set things so that all of Musa8's edits (as tracked by username) get ignored rather than actually applied. * Block the five dozen or so IP addresses that he's using. (This is a temporary solution.) * Protect the two dozen Wiki pages that he's changing -- he keeps changing the same ones, not randomly-chosen ones. (This, again, is a temporary solution.) * Put in an "are you human?" test for all anonymous users, and for all logged-in users who haven't been approved by the site admins. (Something like one of the "type in the numbers in this warped image" things that some sites have.) * Change the edit page urls from "&action=edit" to "&action=editpage". My guess is that this person is using an automatic script that's aimed at bunches of MediaWiki sites, and changing the url will break his script, and he's unlikely to change it just for one site. (This trick works pretty well for weblog spam, apparently.) Meanwhile, is there a community of MediaWiki users somewhere that we can talk to about this? I'd guess that this spammer has been hitting other sites pretty hard too, and there are probably lots of other people working on figuring out good solutions to this.... - Brooks P.S. Someone came through and put in a couple of "real" edits to the "Russian" page. I've made backups of the updated page so it can be re-updated after Patrick reverts things to an old backup of the site.