[MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

[Henny Savenije]

I am using already for quite a while QuestyCaptcha
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha

It allows you to ask a number of questions which will randomly change.

You could use for instance capitals of countries or states.
It works like a charm for me. None of the spammers ever got through.

At 11:36 AM 5/24/2013 Friday +0200, you wrote:
>While not everybody is able to reduce their profit margins as Christ 
>and Tim said, everyone running a MediaWiki wiki can experiment and 
>document best practices. MediaWiki already has many defense tools, 
>but they're often unknown or hard to use (as this very thread 
>shows).        One site I reached from the link in the original post 
>sells at 40 $/6 months a list of a couple thousands wikis which have 
>no captcha at all on registration and a few hundreds which don't 
>have rel=nofollow... The owners of those wikis need some better 
>reading.    A few days ago I refactored/updated 
>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam ; help is 
>needed to coordinate it better with 
>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_vandalism . My main 
>question is whether IP blacklists help stop all those proxies with 
>dozens thousands ever-changing IPs sold for spammers' use, or are 
>just a CPU sink.        On CAPTCHAs, we already know that 
>FancyCaptcha is useless, but it's not clear what to do. A tour I did 
>across 500 wikis some time ago seemed to show that QuestyCaptcha is 
>vastly superior to the other options, for the average wiki. 
><https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Extension_talk:ConfirmEdit/Wikis_account_registration_tour> 
>If confirmed, it could be made the default in the installer, which 
>could also make the user set custom questions in the install process 
>itself and encourage frequent update of the questions. Nemo 
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