E-Democracy.Org is using MediaWiki for various local citizen guides and non-partisan election information directories: http://e-democracy.org/wiki
As you can tell we are suffering from spammers. http://www.e-democracy.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges
As an all volunteer-based group, we are looking for help to defend our ability to use MediaWiki.
What are the main things we need in place to still allow open edits, but to reduce wiki spam?
Is there any kind of add-on that would require someone to enter a code from a graphic to save or a way to ban HTML or the hide the crap "div" code?
Help!
Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Steven Clift wrote:
E-Democracy.Org is using MediaWiki for various local citizen guides and non-partisan election information directories: http://e-democracy.org/wiki
As you can tell we are suffering from spammers. http://www.e-democracy.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges
As an all volunteer-based group, we are looking for help to defend our ability to use MediaWiki.
What are the main things we need in place to still allow open edits, but to reduce wiki spam?
Is there any kind of add-on that would require someone to enter a code from a graphic to save or a way to ban HTML or the hide the crap "div" code?
The SpamBlacklist extension seems to work pretty well against spammers who add advertising links (with the intent of improving their Google ranking I suppose).
There might be other extensions which use "soft" rules to prevent large-scale damages (force a certain delay between 2 edits by the same user, forbid removal of too much stuff from different pages in the same time interval, ...)
In addition you should absolutely make frequent backups of your MySQL database so that large-scale damages could be repaired by restoring the last sane copy of the database.
Martin
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On 12/19/05, Steven Clift slc@publicus.net wrote:
As you can tell we are suffering from spammers. http://www.e-democracy.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges
SpamBlacklist: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension
Ban div tags. In LocalSettings.php, add: $wgSpamRegex="/<div/";
My own notes: http://jrandomhacker.info/MediaWiki_security
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