Well, It has only been one day, but I have ZERO new spam users or edits. I installed the SpamBlacklist and Title_Blacklist at the same time so I am not sure which one is getting them, but it seems to be working. On my site www.debatrix.org .After installing I tested it myself with a couple of "fake spam" edits and users and it caught me every time, with a nice little message letting me know what I was doing was spam.
Jake@debatrix.org aka jake4d
-----Original Message----- From: Seth Marbin [mailto:smarbin@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:59 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues
I have also been getting these same stupid user accounts lately on www.teampedia.netI have ConfirmEdit installed with the SimpleCaptcha.... please let me know how the blacklists work! -Seth
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Jake Ford jake@debatrix.org wrote:
I have been getting an average of 5 or 6 spam user accounts created per
day
on my site of the "buy Viagra type. I just installed two extensions in the hope of blocking future attacks.
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist
I will let you guys know if it worked.
Jake4d www.debatrix.org