Hello again all!
The wiki https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page (which has been upgraded and is running fairly well, thank you!) has been quite heavily targeted by spam https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Special:RecentChanges — it'd be really great to implement a couple of small changes to prevent this from continuing:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Quickest_solutions_to_t..., namely - Set up the StopForumSpam https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StopForumSpam and ConfirmEdit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit extensions - Set up the AbuseFilter extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
We might also want to temporarily disable new account creations ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_account_cre...) while we implement these changes.
As always, please feel free to reach out (I'm also on Slack) if there is anything I can do to help implement my suggested changes.
Kind regards,
*Sammy*
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Many thanks for this Sammy, that's really helpful. I'm pretty sure our IT contractor follows this list but I'll forward your email to her anyway. Cheers, Lucy
On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 at 10:57, Sammy Tarling sam@theresnotime.co.uk wrote:
Hello again all!
The wiki https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page (which has been upgraded and is running fairly well, thank you!) has been quite heavily targeted by spam https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Special:RecentChanges — it'd be really great to implement a couple of small changes to prevent this from continuing:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Quickest_solutions_to_t..., namely
- Set up the StopForumSpam https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StopForumSpam and ConfirmEdit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit extensions
- Set up the AbuseFilter extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
We might also want to temporarily disable new account creations ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_account_cre...) while we implement these changes.
As always, please feel free to reach out (I'm also on Slack) if there is anything I can do to help implement my suggested changes.
Kind regards,
*Sammy*
*(She/Her)*
User:TheresNoTime https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TheresNoTime
*Wikimedia Steward*
*A/CU/OS*
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