I would love to do the same! Can you point me to your configuration? On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 9:03 PM billinghurst <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Denny, > > As a spam defence for Wikimania, we disallowed local account generation, > and just leverage WMF's SULs, similarly did the same for wikidata-test to > great effect. The one thing that we did was to change the login link to > point to somewhere they could create an account. [1] Great success, though > not 100% effective against manual spammers, or those that trawl. > > If allowable, I would also suggest that you leverage the other global > settings like title and spam blacklist, and global abusefilter. > > [1] > https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Wikimania > > -- Billinghurst > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Denny Vrandečić" <[email protected]> > To: "Cloud" <[email protected]> > Sent: 22/04/2021 3:59:12 AM > Subject: [Cloud] Help with a MediaWiki instance on WMCloud - spammers > > 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 > > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > Virus-free. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > <#m_4220196042592130791_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud >
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