Hi all
My site had the same problem. The best answer I ever found was the ConfirmEdit extension combined with dynamic questions. See here: http://thingelstad.com/stopping-mediawiki-spam-with-dynamic-questy-captchas/
It has effectively wiped out spam on my site (a very, very large site). I was spending upwards of two hours a day just cleaning spam out before I found Thingelstad's beautiful answer.
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On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Yudi Wijaya yudigadget@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all, My site ( www.indopancing.com/wiki ) just got bombed by spam bots since last week, i already implement re-captcha few days ago on user registration, but still not help. Then, i try protect all access from spam bots:
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$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;
# Anonymous users can't create pages $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;
# Only users with accounts four days old or older can create pages # Requires MW 1.6 or higher. $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createpage'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['createpage'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createpage'] = true;
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Looks like it's working, no spam bots anymore..
Now, the next problem is my wiki site:
- Full of user account junk from spam bots
- Full of new page creation from spam bots
Luckily the spam bots not change/edit my wiki page.
I already backup the MySQL database with phpMyAdmin
What do you think?
- Does using http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BlockandNuke is safe?
I just create / edit new page using admin account, there is no other account create / edit page. 2. Actually I prefer do fresh installation of MediaWiki and copy paste 1000 contents from old one to the new one. Because i worry deleting user account / page from spam bots still leave junk in my site.
Do you have any sugestion for this problem?
Thank you
Best Regards, Yudi _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l