Jason Davies wrote:
I posted the other day that I had done this on
mediawiki 1.3.1 to no
effect and the consensus was 'upgrade to 1.3.11!' It turns out that we
were running 1.3.11 but the folder was still called 1.3.1. I've added
these lines to no avail. So this is actually a repost of the same
problem. Our wiki is being crippled by spam now and if I can't get this
to work, we have to take it offline soon. As the person who 'sold' them
the idea, i'm being asked to resolve it (and said I thought I could). So
if anyone has any ideas why these lines don't work, I'd be grateful -
otherwise this wiki has to go offline altogether...
For starters, make sure these lines are *at the end* of
LocalSettings.php, not at the beginning. If they appear before the line
that includes DefaultSettings.php, they will be overwritten.
Confirm that the right file's being used.
Confirm that the spam you're seeing is actually forbidden by the
settings (eg, is it from logged-in users already existing?)
Try the SpamBlacklist extension.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)