Hi, 2009/7/30 ccornell - OpenOffice.org <ccorn...@openoffice.org>: > On 07/30/09 11:19, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: >> Take a look here: >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Log/newusers >> It's pretty clear that we are getting a LOT of spammers creating new user >> accounts. Most are not posting anything to the Wiki (partly due to a Spam >> filter regex I added a while back). >> > Maybe this extension? > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist > which has an option: > newaccountonly - forbid creation of matching usernames, but allow page > creation > This would only limit usernames based on a list of unacceptable words that > we would have to create. > At first look I can't see how to configure the username restriction. Do you?
> Maybe this could be used as part of a larger overall anti-spam solution > which includes Capchas on new user account creation? Or.. something else? > Captcha would help too, I think you are on a good way. Bye Volker -- ++ Volker Merschmann - Content Developer OpenOffice.org ++ Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows -- http://de.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@website.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@website.openoffice.org
