[Mediawiki-l] can't block edit war
Platonides
Platonides at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 21:59:38 UTC 2011
Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I have (since some months) problems with a machine/robot which fills
> some pages with pure nonsense (and deletes sometimes the old contents).
>
(...)
> The "POST" operation shows the return level 302, but the page is
> changed.
That's normal, when you save a page, you are redirected to view the page.
> Allowing write access only for registered users doesn't help.
>
> Where's the hidden entry for this nasty robot?
You haven't restricted access only for registered users:
(alle) -> Seiten bearbeiten (edit)
http://arktur.de/Wiki/index.php?title=Spezial:Gruppenrechte
> I've included "ConfirmEdit" and "MathCaptcha" - doesn't help. Maybe
> "MathCaptcha" doesn't work ...
You have MathCaptcha for edits adding a link, but Math captcha is easy
for a bot to solve (it's very easy for a computer to solve a sum) try
using something like FancyCaptcha.
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