Thank you Chris for that link, I had a terrible spam problem when I started
my farm, not so much anymore (I believe an abuse filter a developer friend
created coupled with range blocks seems to be catching them now). I'm going
to re-config ConfirmEdit to the suggested on that page, it just seems to be
a good set even if you're not having any problems.
*Mlpearc*
Founder
Everything Food &
<http://www.everythingfoodanddrink.org/w/index.php/Main_Page>
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Chris Tharp <tharpenator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I recommend making your captcha questions dynamic. Best answer I ever
found for spam on Mediawiki:
http://thingelstad.com/stopping-mediawiki-spam-with-dynamic-questy-captchas…
Sent from my iPad
On Jun 15, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Shirley Hicks <shirley(a)velochicdesign.com>
wrote:
Good afternoon everyone,
I finished upgrading our mediawiki
wiki.redmountainmakers.org to 1.22.6
last
weekend.
Due to some family issues, ended up accessing my
ISP to run maintenance
scripts from the command line over an airport network
enroute to another
city.
This may have been the source of the hacking
problem, as due to some
problems establishing a secure connection, I transmitted a
password in the
clear to my ISP.
Checked back in on the wiki last week to find around 1300 new spammy
users.
Have locked down the wiki, blocking new account creation, enabled a
captcha, and
have restricted administrator's priviledges to create new
accounts.
But the new accounts keep on coming.
Spam blacklist is enabled.
Sysops have been blocked from creating accounts, as have all ordinary
users.
I've changed the critical passwords.
Recommendations as to other settings I should be checking?
-- Shirley Hicks
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