Thanks for thanking me, but seriously you should thank Jamie Thingelstad. Not only did he come up with the best answer for spam I've seen, but he also is, I think, one half of the time that created the Foreground skin (for my money the best skin in Mediawiki). Oh, and he started Wikiapiary: https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page...
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Mlpearc < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Chris for that link, I had a terrible spam problem when I started > my farm, not so much anymore (I believe an abuse filter a developer friend > created coupled with range blocks seems to be catching them now). I'm going > to re-config ConfirmEdit to the suggested on that page, it just seems to be > a good set even if you're not having any problems. > > > *Mlpearc* > Founder > Everything Food & Drink.org > everythingfoodanddrink.org > <http://www.everythingfoodanddrink.org/w/index.php/Main_Page> > > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Chris Tharp <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
