[Mediawiki-l] SpamBlacklist does not keep spambot away

[Samuel Richardson]

You might want to look at installing the reCaptcha plug-in. I use it on all
of my wikis and it works perfectly. By default it will require captchas for
anonymous users that make edits containing external links and for new user
signups.

Samuel Richardson
Freelance Web Developer
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748

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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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