[Mediawiki-l] Major Spam Problems

[Tony Molloy]

I've experienced the same Spammer. I've enabled the SpamBlacklist
Extension and added the SpamRegex entries mentioned earlier and this has
taken care of it for now.

I would really like to see a CAPTCHA for mediawiki. Ideally, this would
be an extension or option that one could enable that would ask for
verification only when creating a new account. One exists now that asks
on every edit, but I feel like this is too much for our users.

Also, all of the accounts created by our spammer have invalid e-mail
addresses. If something could verify that the e-mail was legit before
enabling the account, that would be useful as well.

-Tony 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
> bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of WikiSysop
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 11:19 PM
> 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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