Its an abuse filter rule that can be set to block and prevent one of the most common forms of spam, an accounts first action is creating a user or user talk page with an external link.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > > One thing I have found which works well is an abuse filter rule > > http://pastebin.com/X1VKqvp7 > > How and where would you use that code? And what would it do? > > I suppose if read the whole thread I might figure it out. > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
