Is the below settings should they work at preventing spam? the most issue
is sign ups and spamming after sign ups that they are experiencing. questy
has made a big difference, except users are complaining that the questions
are not localized into their language.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:00 AM, OQ <overlordq(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The best solution I found was to require autoconfirmed
accounts to have
multiple posts before being promoted, and requiring email confirmation in
conjunction with a captcha. Spammers will spend money to solve the captcha
to create accounts but when they have to solve ten more before
autoconfirmed, they never waste the time.
On Sep 20, 2013 3:49 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" <eagles051387(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The Document Foundation has the same issue with
spam, what seems to
really
mitigate the problem is the questy captcha the
problem is that of
localization. i know the creator had started something of the sort and I
am
hoping to find time to help him out.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Ivan Sanders <ivansanders(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I had this sorted, but I clearly dont. I have new users being
> created and content uploaded. Email seems to be intermittent -
sometimes
I
get notifications, other times I don't
URL is at
http://www.actscoutaction.org.au/wiki/index.php/Special:RecentChanges
Here's some detail
LocalSettings.php:
# Disable anonymous editing
// Implicit group for all anonymous
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createtalk'] = false;
$wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges = array( 'WikiSysop', 'IvanSanders' );
Versions are:
MediaWiki 1.21.2 PHP 5.3.26 (litespeed) MySQL 5.5.32-31.0
Any help appreciated
Cheers
Ivan
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