See also [[mw:Extension:CommentSpammer]]. I think there is a text-filter extension; I don't remember where I saw it. H.
On 27/12/2007, Aaron Schulz jschulz_4587@msn.com wrote:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser might be useful too.
Either way, you need to upgrade mediawiki to use any of those extensions.
-Aaron Schulz
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:42:38 -0800 From: aerik@thesylvans.com To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Nasty spambot - any ideas?
I've got some nasty vandal spamming my wiki using what appear to be random IP addresses that don't seem to be proxies through vanilla ports (tried a couple of simple proxy checker scripts I found, only one out of a dozen or so IPs proxied on port 80 or 8080), so I locked it down and required users to be logged in to edit. This stopped him for awhile, but it looks like he's back now, with a vengeance (http://www.wikidweb.com/wiki/Special:Recentchanges).
His purpose boggles the mind, as it appears to be completely vandalous. He's not even posting urls. However, it's very destructive. Anybody got any ideas? I can only think of two: implement a captcha for every edit or require validated emails for user login. Any other suggestions would be great.
Thanks, Aerik
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