[Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

[Angela]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 6:53 AM, 2007 at gmaskfx.com<2007 at gmaskfx.com> wrote:
>
> Is anybody else getting tons of user registrations
> that have spam in the user pages and the
> usernames are soemthing like "180 buy Viagra"?

It's very common.
One solution is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RegexBlock
I expect TitleBlacklist would also help.
FancyCaptchas do not help - they're solving these too.

Angela