On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Daniel Barrett <danb(a)vistaprint.com> wrote:
Spam bots are creating accounts on my music wiki (
http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/Special:RecentChanges). What is the best
extension to prevent this? I installed ConfirmEdit and tried the default
CAPTCHA (SimpleCAPTCHA) but it didn't stop the bots. Before I experiment
with the many other options, I thought I'd ask what people recommend.
Fortunately the bots can't edit articles, just create useless accounts.
Thanks,
DanB
Requiring OpenID for new accounts is also effective.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID