I've experienced the same Spammer. I've enabled the SpamBlacklist
Extension and added the SpamRegex entries mentioned earlier and this has
taken care of it for now.
I would really like to see a CAPTCHA for mediawiki. Ideally, this would
be an extension or option that one could enable that would ask for
verification only when creating a new account. One exists now that asks
on every edit, but I feel like this is too much for our users.
Also, all of the accounts created by our spammer have invalid e-mail
addresses. If something could verify that the e-mail was legit before
enabling the account, that would be useful as well.
-Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
bounces(a)Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of WikiSysop
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 11:19 PM
To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Major Spam Problems
I am running MediaWiki 1.5.1 on
www.drumcorpswiki.com and over the
last
two weeks or so, I've begun having major spam
problems. It seems
someone (a bot possibly?) is creating a user account and then editing
many pages to include spam link and/or a hidden div section. Each
time,
I have to block the user and rollback all of the
changes. Has there
been a fix to the problem? Please see the recent changes on the site
to
get an idea of what I've been up against.
Thanks for any assistance anyone may provide,
Harlan Landes
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