On 24/05/2005, at 6:12 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
With $wgEnableSorbs on, anonymous edits and account creations are checked against the SORBS open proxy server blacklist. A quick spotcheck of wikis sporting spam that's been recently complained about has shown them to be either all or mostly running older versions (1.4.0 or 1.3.x) that don't include support for this check, and the IP addresses of these edits seem to be marked as open proxies by SORBS.
Just for clarity, the syntax is:
$wgEnableSorbs = true;
in your LocalSettings.php file.
An explanation can be found at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Proxy_blocking. -- rik