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
>>
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