I find that an abuse filter (through the AbuseFilter extension) that simply
forces new users trying to add links to confirm their edit works quite well.
Alex
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Shirley Hicks
<shirley(a)velochicdesign.com>wrote;wrote:
Good evening everyone,
First post from a newbie.
I'm relatively new to wikis, currently administering my second one ever on
behalf of the Red Mountain Makers,
http://wiki.redmountainmakers.org.
I just completed a rather large spam cleanup, caused by our failure to
install security and anti-spam extensions.
Ended up doing it the way that specifically MediaWiki specifically advises
against, editing the user and page tables, as the volume was really, really
high.
The wiki database is now knocked back down to a reasonable size, but I'm
wondering what extensions and tactics users of MediaWiki 1.19.7 find the
most useful for controlling spam?
I've installed and configured the bad-behavior, SpamBlackList,
ConfirmAccount, Nuke & UserAdmin extensions. The User Admin script is
broken and I haven't yet started to trace that to see if I can fix it to
work with this wiki version.
Advice? Ideas?
-- Shirley Hicks
shirley(a)velochicdesign.com
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