[Mediawiki-l] spam attack avoids captcha

[Frederick Grose]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Chris Lewis <yecheondigital at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Yes I have the same problem. So annoying. Are humans confirming the emails
> as
> well?
>
> I have captcha, email confirmation and the SpamBlacklist extension and i'm
> still
> getting spammed every day for the last week. They keep making new accounts
> every
> day. What can I do since they are bypassing all this? Really annoying and
> time
> consuming banning users and deleting spam pages.
>
> Chris
>

Install
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
and disable new account creation, instead, redirect users to the OpenID
account page,
Special:OpenIDLogin.

       --Fred