Philip Beach wrote:
My wiki is experiencing a lot of vandalism lately. I would like to implement things to reduce the amount of vandals allowed into the system. Perhaps limiting the number of edits by brand new users? Requiring a valid email address by new users? Requiring a full name? One thing I would really like to do is to limit the number of characters in a new user id to less than about 12.
Is there any easy way to do any of this, like an extension or something already in the software?
Not knowing what kind of vandalism you're experiencing, I can at least say that I have nothing but good things to say about how SpamBlacklist (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension) has helped stop vandalism at my wikis.
Regards, Arne