I run a Wiki for students of Japanese Religion and had spam problems too, for some time.
In the moment, I am doing quite well with Confirm Edit + CaptchaQuestions. When people
want to register they have to do a simple Japanese test. Thus I can be fairly sure that
only human users who know some basic Japanese become registered users. Only registered
users have edit rights.
Perhaps it is a good idea to control user registration by easy topic related test
questions.
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Gesendet: Freitag, 8. November 2013 13:22
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Betreff: [MediaWiki-l] Serious Spam Problem
Hi!!
I'm having a HUGE problem with the spamming in my wiki (
http://www.realzaragozapedia.es). I've installed the Confirm Edit and set up the User
Registration to "false"...but the wiki don't have much sense with these
parameters.
Also I'm using the "Merge and Delete" extension, wich is a tedious an very
slow way to delete all of the 7000 spam accounts registered in my wiki. Is there any
faster way to do that? (I mean, preserving the database integrity ).
Thanks for your help and sorry for my english.
Juan
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