Christopher Eicher wrote: > I'm preping myself to install a couple of anti-spam methods to protect my > wiki site (I hope). Unfortunately i've had little success installing the > newest version of the wikimedia software (1.16) so i'm relying on the 1.6 > version. Looking at this article here > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit it says it can be used > in versions 1.6 and up, but in the detailed information area it says it > requires version 1.11 and up. What version does it need in order to operate > correctly? > > Not looking to have fort knoxx at the moment since my site is sort of back > water, but down the road I do hope to increase my security a bit. Mostly > want to prevent people from inputing naughty words probably using the > $wgSpamRegex command and prevent established IP spam address from trying to > create accounts to spam the wiki site.
Using an outdated version with security vulnerabilities is not the way to begin securing the wiki. What problems do you have upgrading? You don't have PHP 5? PHP 4 has reached its end of life and should not be used any more. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
