This page has turned into a discussion on the best ways of maintaining blacklists:
wikiblacklist.blogspot.com is 3 months out of date, no longer maintained apparently. – 62.26.145.20
That is one of the main reasons for having the list maintained on wikis. It can be vandalized, but it doesn't rely on one person. Spam fighting takes a lot more time than you realize if you let it, but if not you don't get much done. Our chongqed blacklist can be found at http://blacklist.chongqed.org or http://distribute.chongqed.org depending on which works better with the wiki you use. That is not a replacement for the distributed wiki black lists, but it is a good list and is updated whenever we add spammers to the database. – Joe - 2004-11-10 15:53 UTC
A list on a wiki typically relies on one person - the wiki's owner, and that owner often finds it necessary to make the list updatable only by himself. This suggests a better place for the list is a conventional forum, where public access is limited to appending new content, or an equivalent restricted-access page as a special feature of the wiki. – 62.26.145.20
The actual blacklist of a page would be managed by the wiki owner, but the many WikiBlackList pages this blog was trying to replace are normally open to all to edit. They are used to distribute the blacklist information. A wiki owner can then use the text in there to add to their actual blacklist. Obviously there are some that are more up to date than others and some have different content, but the copies on some of the larger wikis are updated (last time I checked). By moving it to a blog it was supposed to be safe from spammers deleting it, but as you can see it is not being updated. – Joe - 2004-11-11 16:15 UTC
An append-only page is also safe from deletion; there were other motives for rejecting that, such as "not thought of here". Note some inappropriate content, and that the format was intended for use by a script, but the script was never published, and although usable in theory, has never been observed in use, although some wiki owners run their own script(s). – 62.26.145.20
Problem with an append only page would be no way to revert bad additions (from vandals or spammers) that may block good links or even all links. You would still rely on the wiki owner to fix the errors which would could leave the wiki less unusable for a while. – Joe - 2004-11-11 19:15 UTC
Administration is still needed but is much easier. There is little point in adding false entries if you know what you add can be commented on by others and is removable by an administrator. Some simple update limiting logic will prevent damage by an excessive number of appends, and can safely (and usefully) be disclosed to deter deliberate attack. – 62.26.145.20
So there's two extremes. The wiki way is to allow everyone to edit the blacklist. But since this blacklist is potentially going to be fed directly into wiki software, its a little more sensitive, with more potential for disruption, than normal article text, so to prevent abuse I think we would have to be more restrictive. The other extreme is to allow only an administrator to edit the blacklist. But what about if you let lots of people have admin rights on the blacklist, then it's no longer one administrator's job. Everyone who has a proven interest in fight wikispam could be granted permission to edit the list. This is the way community wiki does their BannedContent list. Wikipedia also dishes out various levels of permissions to loads of people, to spread the administration workload. See Wikipedia:Administrators – Halz - 2004-11-16 12:44 UTC
That is pretty much a requirement for large wikis, but there should be several levels of Admins under the wiki owner. Really trusted admins can be given more power than regular admins. Wikipedia works that way, but I don't know if many of the other wiki implementations offer that. --Joe - 2004-11-17 05:35 UTC
Wikipedia might be an exception, but the above suggestions for multiple administrators seem unnecessarily complicated. Hence my append-only (except for an administrator) suggestion above. – Patrick
The WikiBlackList blog has been take over by a spammer, all antispam content is now gone and has been replaced by nonsense text and spammy links. It appears to have happened late in January 2005. That was about 5 or 6 months of inactivity, maybe the site just expired or the original author deleted the page. Either way a spammer has it now. If you see any links to this site please remove them and leave a comment explaining why so its not reverted as vandalizm. The spammer already has a PageRank of 3 by stealing the blog that people were already linking to. – Joe - 2005-03-08 21:06 UTC