On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:54 PM, 2007@gmaskfx.com 2007@gmaskfx.com wrote:
I've tried every flavor of confirmedit and none of them seem block the worse offenders. I tried ReCaptcha but now the bots or the person determined to get around that get through and post their spam anyway. If I could I'd have several of these at once just for account creation.
I'm trying the question based one now and hopefully that won't be too hard for the people I want to actually edit the wiki.
Speaking of questy captcha.. is it possible to have one question and several answers?
$wgCaptchaQuestions[1] = array( 'question' => "Question?", 'answer' => "answer1", 'answer' => "answer2", 'answer' => "answer3" );
--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Łukasz Garczewski tor@wikia-inc.com wrote:
From: Łukasz Garczewski tor@wikia-inc.com Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how do I restrict the length of usernames? To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <
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Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 12:43 PM On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 PM, 2007@gmaskfx.com 2007@gmaskfx.com wrote:
Uh thanks for the help.. just getting frustrated
because I'm getting hammered with spam and I have tried everything in the manual and little of it is helping.
Try installing the ConfirmEdit extension. That should help. :)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit
-- Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski Wikia Tech Team
We suffered many attacks and fortunately had the OpenID login extension,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
installed and so decided to disable native wiki account creation with this in LocalSettings.php:
# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
Then updated MediaWiki:Loginprompt to
suggest that new users create accounts with an OpenID.
This seems to repel the attacks.
Many users will already have OpenID authentication via their email accounts or other popular web sites.
--Fred