Hi Alex, thank you! Yes, you are absolutely right, that's what I would like to try - but what I don't understand is where and how do I edit the LocalSettings for a MediaWiki instance provisioned on WMCloud via Vagrant?
Thanks, Denny On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:59 AM Alex Monk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Denny, > > Have you seen https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam or > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights? > You might be able to do something like `$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = > false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;` > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 18:59, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a MediaWiki instance running on WMCloud: >> >> https://annotation.wmcloud.org/ >> >> Is there some recipe or instruction available somewhere on how to manage >> it? >> >> More specifically, about a week ago, spammers discovered it. I would like >> to use WSOAuth and PluggableAuth or something similar in order to allow >> only logins by users with a Wikimedia account, and only allow edits by >> logged in users. >> >> On a shorter notice, as a stop gap, I would like to disallow account >> creation by non-logged-in users and edits by non-logged in user, so I can >> at least stop new spam creation and clean up the existing one. >> >> I am very confused by Puppet, have a rough idea what Vagrant is, and >> think I have a stable understanding of MediaWiki maintenance. Any help or >> pointers would be much appreciated. >> >> Thank you! >> Denny >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >> [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud >
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