Is the below settings should they work at preventing spam? the most issue
is sign ups and spamming after sign ups that they are experiencing. questy
has made a big difference, except users are complaining that the questions
are not localized into their language.


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:00 AM, OQ <[email protected]> wrote:

> The best solution I found was to require autoconfirmed accounts to have
> multiple posts before being promoted, and requiring email confirmation in
> conjunction with a captcha. Spammers will spend money to solve the captcha
> to create accounts but when they have to solve ten more before
> autoconfirmed, they never waste the time.
> On Sep 20, 2013 3:49 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > The Document Foundation has the same issue with spam, what seems to
> really
> > mitigate the problem is the questy captcha the problem is that of
> > localization. i know the creator had started something of the sort and I
> am
> > hoping to find time to help him out.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Ivan Sanders <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I thought I had this sorted, but I clearly dont. I have new users being
> > > created and content uploaded. Email seems to be intermittent -
> sometimes
> > I
> > > get notifications, other times I don't
> > >
> > > URL is at
> > > http://www.actscoutaction.org.au/wiki/index.php/Special:RecentChanges
> > >
> > >
> > > Here's some detail
> > >
> > > LocalSettings.php:
> > >
> > > # Disable anonymous editing
> > > // Implicit group for all anonymous
> > > $wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createaccount']   = false;
> > > $wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['read']            = true;
> > > $wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['edit']            = false;
> > > $wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createpage']      = false;
> > > $wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createtalk']      = false;
> > >
> > > $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges = array( 'WikiSysop', 'IvanSanders' );
> > >
> > > Versions are:
> > >
> > > MediaWiki 1.21.2 PHP 5.3.26 (litespeed) MySQL 5.5.32-31.0
> > >
> > >
> > > Any help appreciated
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Ivan
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