Har, dug him up from the $(whois mapki.com) email address. Actually reached him!

ID> Good point.  Have you filed this in bugzilla? Good point. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33905

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"ID" == Ian Dees ian.dees@gmail.com writes:

ID> Hi all,

ID> Thanks for pointing this out. I've been very frustrated with ID> Mediawiki's spam protection. Granted mapki.com doesn't really have ID> any community behind it to help police changes, but Mediawiki sure ID> doesn't make it easy for a site owner to protect the wiki.

http://mapki.com/wiki/Special:Version looks a little dated though.

ID> To your original question, jidanni, I lost the sitesupport-url a ID> while back when I was trying to purge spam pages and hadn't bothered ID> to put it back because it should be fairly easy to see which user ID> owns the wiki from the changelog (I (User:Yellowbkpk) am the only ID> one that's making edits).

Er, http://mapki.com/wiki/Sitesupport-url leads to http://mapki.com/wiki/User_talk:Yellowbkpk leads to nobody home in 2011.

ID> I've since added a "user review" plugin to prevent spam bots from ID> creating accounts at a rate of 10's per day. This has cut down on ID> the spam policing I've had to do.

I think you need to reinstall Mediawiki from scratch in a cleanroom...

ID> -Ian

Anyway, my jidanni.org wikis all have 1. my +886-4-25854780 phone number a mere click or two away, 2. clamped down to "send me an email for an account", etc. No pretty URLs, but no spam either. http://abj.jidanni.org/ http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/ http://transgender-taiwan.org/