On 9/2/05, Andy Roberts <aroberts(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the prompt reply, Mike.
With your information I googled for "defaultsettings.php" and found
it in the 'includes' directory. I then copied the line
$wgSysopRangeBans = false; # Allow sysops to ban IP ranges
to my localsettings.php file and changed false to true.
This then enabled me to block 69.50.0.0/16 which I hope will get me
over one longstanding and persistent problem.
I shall remain susbscribed to this helpful mailing list in order to
keep up with developments in the forthcoming struggles against
spambots, particularly if some kind of shared blacklist or bot
detection strategy evolves.
Consider
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension
This blacklists the payloads rather than the carriers. In other words
it checks for urls which wikispammers try to insert into articles and
prevents them from saving the page.
I've found it quite effective, particularly when using a listed based
on that kept by
chongqed.org