Yeah I've been checking that out.. I'll have to test it.. does Open ID work with facebook?
Thanks Adrian
--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Frederick Grose fgrose@gmail.com wrote:
From: Frederick Grose fgrose@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how do I restrict the length of usernames? To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 2:56 PM On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:54 PM, 2007@gmaskfx.com 2007@gmaskfx.com wrote:
I've tried every flavor of confirmedit and none of
them seem block the
worse offenders. I tried ReCaptcha but now the bots or
the person determined
to get around that get through and post their spam
anyway. If I could I'd
have several of these at once just for account
creation.
I'm trying the question based one now and hopefully
that won't be too hard
for the people I want to actually edit the wiki.
Speaking of questy captcha.. is it possible to have
one question and
several answers?
$wgCaptchaQuestions[1] = array( 'question' =>
"Question?", 'answer' =>
"answer1", 'answer' => "answer2", 'answer' =>
"answer3" );
--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Łukasz Garczewski tor@wikia-inc.com
wrote:
From: Łukasz Garczewski tor@wikia-inc.com Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how do I restrict the
length of usernames?
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
<
mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 12:43 PM On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 PM, 2007@gmaskfx.com 2007@gmaskfx.com wrote:
Uh thanks for the help.. just getting
frustrated
because I'm getting hammered with spam and I have
tried
everything in the manual and little of it is
helping.
Try installing the ConfirmEdit extension. That
should help.
:)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit
-- Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski Wikia Tech Team
We suffered many attacks and fortunately had the OpenID login extension,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
installed and so decided to disable native wiki account creation with this in LocalSettings.php:
# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
Then updated MediaWiki:Loginprompt to
suggest that new users create accounts with an OpenID.
This seems to repel the attacks.
Many users will already have OpenID authentication via their email accounts or other popular web sites.
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