On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Michael Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Regarding spam, here are the settings for the wiki I administer: > http://zelea.com/w/Wiki:Main_page > > http://zelea.com/system/host/obsidian/var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki-c/LocalSettings.php > > See "spam protections", particularly the escalating countermeasures > A.1, A.2, ... But I've found that A.1 (captcha) is sufficient to stop > all bot registrations and bot spam, provided the captcha is good: > > ## (A.1) captcha: uncomment ConfirmEdit extension at bottom > > The one I use is perhaps the simplest of all: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha Yup, this is what I was running for the last couple of years or so. The wiki became overrun with user accounts, though. I could rotate questions, but I don't feel like being that active in managing this. What I have done is made it so that anyone should be able to approve someone who has requested an account. The link: http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Special:ConfirmAccounts I may still put QuestyCaptcha back in, but let's try this out for a bit. The nice thing about this system is that it creates a web of trust. People who have a pattern of letting in spammers can get their accounts revoked. Additionally, I've cleaned up all of the inactive accounts except for a couple that appeared valid (I recognized the name and email address), and I've also pruned the Recent Changes so that a lot of the bulk operations are gone. Let me know if the changes today introduce new problems. Thanks Rob
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