The '''BlockTitles''' extension allows Mediawiki administrators to block the creation, 
or editing, of articles with particular title names. For example, a commmon spam technique 
is to post an article that has the name of a URL. Using this tool can prevent these articles 
from being created. 

== License ==

Copyright 2006 Travis Derouin

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

== Author ==

Travis Derouin ( travis @ wikihow.com)

== Pre-requisites ==

This extension was tested with MediaWiki 1.6.7 and Mediawiki 1.8.2. 

== Installation ==

Get the source vi SVN. 

In your MediaWiki LocalSettings.php, add the following line some place
towards the bottom of the file:

 require_once("$IP/extensions/BlockTitles/BlockTitles.php");

== Configuration ==

Simply add any regular expressions you want to the variable $wgBlockTitlePatterns in BlockTitles.php. 
By default there are no set patterns.

== Bugs and enhancements ==

Bugs or feature requests can be sent to the author at travis @ wikihow.com.