[Mediawiki-l] How can I moderate who registers?

Rotem Liss rotemliss_net at fastmail.fm
Mon Oct 23 18:37:21 UTC 2006


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Tim Ware wrote:
> My big worry is that, like with a forum, that spambots will register  
> automatically and then totally screw up the wiki with spam. Is  
> MediaWiki pretty immune to this, given that there's no way to  
> moderate registrations? I just don't have the bandwidth to monitor  
> the wiki 24/7. Thanks.
> 
> Tim
> 

You can use the extension ConfirmEdit and Captcha to prevent automated
registrations.
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