>On 4 April 2012 18:19, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
>> More:
>>
>> IP addresses which do N bad login attemps should be blocked from
>> accessing login page for Z minutes (You have done too many bad login
>> attempts, please wait 5 minutes before trying again)
>> This would help to avoid bots who try to compromise account by trying
>> random passwords
>
>We already do this, I believe.

I believe it's covered through this:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle
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