On Wednesday 13 April 2011 18:01:30 Kilian wrote:
On 04/13/2011 06:57 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote:
The spam is getting really tiresome. I turned on ConfirmAccount and the spammers continue to ask for accounts even through that mechanism. It is a real pain...
Read this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit works well for me, with the QuestyCaptcha CAPTCHA type.
What I'd really like to see is the ability to say that you can't make any edits until you have been registered for a period of time, unless you are a member of a higher group. I doubt if the spammers would bother creating an account and coming back to post their spam three months later. I haven't seen anyone suggest that it actually is possible, though.
Anne