Re: [Cloud] Help with a MediaWiki instance on WMCloud - spammers

Hi Denny, As a spam defence for Wikimania, we disallowed local account generation, and just leverage WMF's SULs, similarly did the same for wikidata-test to great effect. The one thing that we did was to change the login link to point to somewhere they could create an account. [1] Great success, though not 100% effective against manual spammers, or those that trawl. If allowable, I would also suggest that you leverage the other global settings like title and spam blacklist, and global abusefilter. [1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&ret… -- Billinghurst ------ Original Message ------ From: "Denny Vrandečić" &lt;dvrandecic(a)wikimedia.org&gt; To: "Cloud" &lt;cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Sent: 22/04/2021 3:59:12 AM Subject: [Cloud] Help with a MediaWiki instance on WMCloud - spammers Hi all, I have a MediaWiki instance running on WMCloud: https://annotation.wmcloud.org/ Is there some recipe or instruction available somewhere on how to manage it? More specifically, about a week ago, spammers discovered it. I would like to use WSOAuth and PluggableAuth or something similar in order to allow only logins by users with a Wikimedia account, and only allow edits by logged in users. On a shorter notice, as a stop gap, I would like to disallow account creation by non-logged-in users and edits by non-logged in user, so I can at least stop new spam creation and clean up the existing one. I am very confused by Puppet, have a rough idea what Vagrant is, and think I have a stable understanding of MediaWiki maintenance. Any help or pointers would be much appreciated. Thank you! Denny <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> <#m_7700066831509385624_m_4220196042592130791_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list Cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org (formerly labs-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud