Hallo, Clayton,
Du meintest am 05.12.09:
I have a lot of problems with drug spam on my wiki
http://arktur.de/Wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/delete http://arktur.de/Wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/block
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The MediaWiki options you can play with to limit spammers are:
# Require users log in to edit $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
This blocks anonymous edits.
That's another problem. In my case the spammer first creates a user account (included the confirmation). And he uses this account for editing the user page.
# Editors must have a valid email address before # being allowed to edit wiki pages $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;
All users must have a valid email address and confirm by clicking a link in an email they receive from the Wiki
My spammer seems to use valid and confirmed addresses.
# Look for specific common spam words on page save, # and block if any found $wgSpamRegex = "/word1|word2|word3|word4/";
In the $wgSpamRegex array, just add your common spam words between the slashes with each word separated by a pipe.
Maybe I'll add this test - not only this drug spammer vandales.
The extensions I installed there are:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA which adds a Captcha on new user creation. It's a minor inconvenience to new users, but it adds one more hurdle to spammers.
I've just installed "ConfirmEdit", seems to work as desired.
I'll take a look at it - thank you!
Viele Gruesse! Helmut