[Mediawiki-l] Major Spam Problems

[Arthur Guy]

This isn't the kind of problem that can be fixed, its one of those things
you have to just deal with.

There are a couple of things you can try, for example if the bot is making
lots of accounts you can impose account creation limits, there is also a
hack to add a captchas.

Also as you are running version 1.5 there are some additional tools
available (you should upgrade to version 1.5.2)

Arthur
arthur at astarsolutions.co.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of WikiSysop
Sent: 07 November 2005 04:19
To: mediawiki-l at 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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