A fairly detailed (if not super easy to use) place to start is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features, which points to various extensions that can help out.
For a popular site, you'll need a holistic strategy for dealing with spam, which will include a few different tools, possibly something like: * Make your site less desirable for link spam, e.g. by setting $wgNoFollowLinks=true * Prevent bots with captchas (ConfirmEdit) and SimpleAntiSpam * Detect and block bad edits with AbuseFilter and SpamBlacklist * Monitor frequently, and be ready to cleanup with Nuke 2012/9/26 Yury Katkov <[email protected]>: > Hi Markus! > > I recommend you to use QuestyCaptcha to dissallow the bots to register and > also use $wgAutoConfirmAge = 3600*24; > ----- > Yury Katkov > > > > > 2012/9/26 Markus <[email protected]> > >> Liebe MW-Spezialisten, >> >> Wir haben tausende Benutzeracounts von Spammern: >> http://wiki.openseamap.org/**wiki/Spezial:Benutzer<http://wiki.openseamap.org/wiki/Spezial:Benutzer> >> >> Wie kann ich diese löschen? >> Eine "White list" von "guten" Benutzern ist vorhanden. >> >> Gibt es da einen Bot? >> >> Danke, Markus >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected].**org <[email protected]> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
