2012/8/1 Scheid, Bernhard <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I am running a couple of relatively small academic Wikis mainly for > educational uses at university. Thus there is relatively little traffic > apart from course time. Nevertheless, some two years ago I noticed more and > more spam and thus reduced editing rights first to registered users, then to > users of a special group that need my personal acknowledgement. Now, in > recent months there is an increasing number of new users (robots?) obviously > attempting to write spam which they do not do but they are kind of spamming > the lists of registered users. I could reduce the registration rights but on > the other hand I want students to register freely in order to obtain their > editing permissions. Is there a decent way to detect and prevent harmful > would-be spammers from setting up an account without preventing that option > for serious users?
Hallo, Try this page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
