I ended up linking accounts on my wiki to the associated SMF forum. Since
the account creation there human moderated, I've had zero bot accounts on
the wiki since. Now I just need to go through and clean out the bots from
the wiki.
Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Barrett
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 11:57
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?
Spam bots are creating accounts on my music wiki
(http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/Special:RecentChanges). What is the best
extension to prevent this? I installed ConfirmEdit and tried the default
CAPTCHA (SimpleCAPTCHA) but it didn't stop the bots. Before I experiment
with the many other options, I thought I'd ask what people recommend.
Fortunately the bots can't edit articles, just create useless accounts.
Thanks,
DanB
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