Thanks very much for posting this. For people like me who have very limited techincal skills, but still want to support a simple wiki, the single biggest obstacle is understanding how to best deal with spam. I suspect lots of newbies appreciate occasional posts about spam.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Werner Lohe Brookline/Boston, MA USA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Chris Steipp csteipp@wikimedia.org wrote:
A fairly detailed (if not super easy to use) place to start is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features, which points to various extensions that can help out.
For a popular site, you'll need a holistic strategy for dealing with spam, which will include a few different tools, possibly something like:
- Make your site less desirable for link spam, e.g. by setting
$wgNoFollowLinks=true
- Prevent bots with captchas (ConfirmEdit) and SimpleAntiSpam
- Detect and block bad edits with AbuseFilter and SpamBlacklist
- Monitor frequently, and be ready to cleanup with Nuke
2012/9/26 Yury Katkov katkov.juriy@gmail.com:
Hi Markus!
I recommend you to use QuestyCaptcha to dissallow the bots to register
and
also use $wgAutoConfirmAge = 3600*24;
Yury Katkov
2012/9/26 Markus liste12A45q7@gmx.de
Liebe MW-Spezialisten,
Wir haben tausende Benutzeracounts von Spammern: http://wiki.openseamap.org/**wiki/Spezial:Benutzer<
http://wiki.openseamap.org/wiki/Spezial:Benutzer%3E
Wie kann ich diese löschen? Eine "White list" von "guten" Benutzern ist vorhanden.
Gibt es da einen Bot?
Danke, Markus
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