[Mediawiki-l] SpamBlacklist does not keep spambot away

[Platonides]

Bjorn Kassoe Andersen wrote:
> I have one or more spambots that keep coming back on a specific page, you
> can see it in action here:
> http://www.whatleadership.us/wiki/Special:Recentchanges
> (this is a test set up - the site is not ready for visitors yet)

How lovely, all those spambots adding and removing the spam from its 
partners.

> Tried to install SpamBlacklist. Used the simple setup suggested for
> localsettings.php (without including array). Did not get it to work.

That's because hi5.com isn't on the meta blacklist 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist

Try adding it to http://www.whatleadership.us/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist

> Also tried to protect the page with no result.

The pages on those RecentChanges aren't protected. Note that on 
deleting, the page will no longer be protected. You need to protect 
against creation.

> The SpamBlacklist extension's talk page has old discussions about it not
> working, no apparent solution at hand.
>  
> Any hints?
>  
> kassoe

You can also try ConfirmEdit 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
You can configure it to trigger a captcha on link additions/all edits.