Spam

Spam is a general term for unsollicited communication, especially in order to advertise certain products or services. The word spam is derived from a Monty Python sketch. For more details, see wikipedia:Spam.

If you encouter spam within this wiki (this typically is a long list of URLs, sometimes hidden in the page source) please delete it and copy the text to our Spambox. We will then modify our spam filters to block such and similar content in the future.

To block spam directly, administrators can enter URL keywords into Spam blacklist, and server admins can extend the list of forbidden regexps. Normal users should edit the Spambox to request blocking of particular spam.

By the way: spammers are stupid. Pasting hidden links within a MediaWiki does not have any effect, since all hyperlinks are tagged with "nofollow", i.e. they are not taken into account by search engines anyway. If they are also hidden from users (as they usually are), there is really no audience at all. But spamming apparently is too cheap (for the spammers) to think twice about such things.