[Mediawiki-l] Decreasing vandalism

[Arne Meyer Vedø-Hansen]

Philip Beach wrote:
> My wiki is experiencing a lot of vandalism lately. I would like to
> implement things to reduce the amount of vandals allowed into the
> system. Perhaps limiting the number of edits by brand new users?
> Requiring a valid email address by new users?  Requiring a full name?
> One thing I would really like to do is to limit the number of
> characters in a new user id to less than about 12.
> 
> Is there any easy way to do any of this, like an extension or
> something already in the software?

Not knowing what kind of vandalism you're experiencing, I can at least 
say that I have nothing but good things to say about how SpamBlacklist 
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension) has helped stop 
vandalism at my wikis.

Regards,
Arne