[Mediawiki-l] My WIKI is being HIT!!!

[Rik Wade]

On 24/05/2005, at 6:12 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>
> With $wgEnableSorbs on, anonymous edits and account creations are
> checked against the SORBS open proxy server blacklist. A quick  
> spotcheck
> of wikis sporting spam that's been recently complained about has shown
> them to be either all or mostly running older versions (1.4.0 or  
> 1.3.x)
> that don't include support for this check, and the IP addresses of  
> these
> edits seem to be marked as open proxies by SORBS.

Just for clarity, the syntax is:

$wgEnableSorbs = true;

in your LocalSettings.php file.

An explanation can be found at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ 
Proxy_blocking.
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rik