Hi I recommend making your captcha questions dynamic. Best answer I ever found for spam on Mediawiki: http://thingelstad.com/stopping-mediawiki-spam-with-dynamic-questy-captchas/#more-154561559
Sent from my iPad On Jun 15, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Shirley Hicks <[email protected]> wrote: > Good afternoon everyone, > > I finished upgrading our mediawiki wiki.redmountainmakers.org to 1.22.6 last > weekend. > Due to some family issues, ended up accessing my ISP to run maintenance > scripts from the command line over an airport network enroute to another city. > This may have been the source of the hacking problem, as due to some problems > establishing a secure connection, I transmitted a password in the clear to my > ISP. > > Checked back in on the wiki last week to find around 1300 new spammy users. > > Have locked down the wiki, blocking new account creation, enabled a captcha, > and have restricted administrator's priviledges to create new accounts. > But the new accounts keep on coming. > > Spam blacklist is enabled. > Sysops have been blocked from creating accounts, as have all ordinary users. > I've changed the critical passwords. > > Recommendations as to other settings I should be checking? > > -- Shirley Hicks > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
