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Moin,
On Sunday 30 July 2006 06:25, elisa.cooper@breakingranks.net wrote:
Hi, all -
Sorry for the repeat question. I haven't seen any replies to the first one, so I'm trying again.
My wiki gets a ton of spam. And I have no idea what to do about it. Here's the info:
http://www.breakingranks.net/rankism_wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
* MediaWiki: 1.5.6 * PHP: 4.4.2 (cgi) * MySQL: 5.0.18-standard-logThe really weird thing is after the last attack I discovered I couldn't roll back to a historical edit. When I went to "diff" it showed the historical version, but when I activated the "edit" tab, it went back to the current version. That meant I had to recreate all the over-written pages from scratch. This was the point when I realized there must be a better way. I can't imagine people continuing to use wikis if they just spend all their time battling spambots.
Have you looked at the various extensions that let you block spam before it happens?
In addition, slightly OT:
http://www.breakingranks.net/rankism_wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
has links like:
[http://www.breakingranks.net/rankism_wiki/index.php?title=Coin-a-Word Coin-a-Word]
You dont want this, you want simple:
[[Coin-a-Word]]
Likewise, the text you used to describe how to create an article could be simplified if you install the inputbox extension and then simple make an input field "new article" on the main page :)
Hope that helps,
Tels
PS: It would be wise to write on your main page what your wiki is about - it is for someone totally new stumbling over it quite confusing.
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