Thanks everybody for the hints and suggestions - will try the differents steps suggested ...
kassoe
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Samuel Richardson Sent: 30. september 2008 08:41 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] SpamBlacklist does not keep spambot away
It's a pretty narrow view to take of Captchas. As I said before, the reCaptcha plug-in still allows anonymous edits, it only requires code entry if that captcha has an external link or the visitor is trying to create a new user on the wiki.
I run a reasonably popular wiki, around 2000 visitors per day, and I've never had a single spam edit since I installed the plug-in a couple of years ago.
Thanks,
Samuel Richardson Freelance Web Developer www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Helmut Hullen Hullen@t-online.de wrote:
Hallo, Michael,
Du (michael.daly) meintest am 29.09.08:
I see you've been putting all the offending IPs into the
blocked IP
list. That has limited value since the IPs of spammers change so often.
I use the CIDR notation - that's enough for x.y.z.w/16 nets.
You could try installing a Captcha extension. If the spammer is a bot, they tend to be stopped by that.
Captcha is evil. It blocks the good guys very well, and it
blocks the
bad guys poorly (is that english? please excuse my gerlish)
Viele Gruesse! Helmut
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