Ben Ward wrote:
Critically, it doesn't add anything to logging in or editing pages, so
your regular workflows should be unaffected.
It does seem to come up when editing pages - at least when adding/
changing external links.
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Toby A Inkster
mailto:m...@tobyinkster.co.uk
Update on this:
We've added the ReCaptcha extension to our MediaWiki install, which
provides a visual and audio captcha to the sign up process, against
brute force password login attacks and a few other scenarios. It
should significantly raise the barrier of entry for spam bots.
On 5 Jan 2009, at 12:05, Martin McEvoy wrote:
It looks to me like the wiki is being spammed by a bot or bots [...]
I stopped it by changing the form names to to something gibberish,
nothing standard wpTextbox1 would be come ZifG5ut nonsense
basically, a good Idea is to change the form
On Jan 7, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
On 5 Jan 2009, at 12:05, Martin McEvoy wrote:
It looks to me like the wiki is being spammed by a bot or bots
[...]
I stopped it by changing the form names to to something gibberish,
nothing standard wpTextbox1 would be come ZifG5ut nonsense
It looks to me like the wiki is being spammed by a bot or bots, I have
suffered problems like this.
I stopped it by changing the form names to to something gibberish,
nothing standard wpTextbox1 would be come ZifG5ut nonsense
basically, a good Idea is to change the form names regularly,
Hi Toby,
On 5 Jan 2009, at 01:05, Toby A Inkster wrote:
I don't know much about MediaWiki, but surely it's possible to
create a plugin which looks at edits from users with no edit
history, and blocks the edit if and only if it seems to create a one-
word paragraph at the top of the page?
Hi Martin, thanks for your comments.
On 5 Jan 2009, at 12:05, Martin McEvoy wrote:
It looks to me like the wiki is being spammed by a bot or bots, I
have suffered problems like this.
The wiki has been spammed for a long long time. The the past, the
admins watch changes come through the
