The best solution I found was to require autoconfirmed accounts to have multiple posts before being promoted, and requiring email confirmation in conjunction with a captcha. Spammers will spend money to solve the captcha to create accounts but when they have to solve ten more before autoconfirmed, they never waste the time. On Sep 20, 2013 3:49 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" eagles051387@gmail.com wrote:
The Document Foundation has the same issue with spam, what seems to really mitigate the problem is the questy captcha the problem is that of localization. i know the creator had started something of the sort and I am hoping to find time to help him out.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Ivan Sanders ivansanders@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I thought I had this sorted, but I clearly dont. I have new users being created and content uploaded. Email seems to be intermittent - sometimes
I
get notifications, other times I don't
URL is at http://www.actscoutaction.org.au/wiki/index.php/Special:RecentChanges
Here's some detail
LocalSettings.php:
# Disable anonymous editing // Implicit group for all anonymous $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createpage'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createtalk'] = false;
$wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges = array( 'WikiSysop', 'IvanSanders' );
Versions are:
MediaWiki 1.21.2 PHP 5.3.26 (litespeed) MySQL 5.5.32-31.0
Any help appreciated
Cheers
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