On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:11:50PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > Something like this: > > # Email authentication required for new users > $wgEnableEmail = true; > $wgEnableUserEmail = true; > $wgEmailAuthentication = true; > $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true; > > Dropped into LocalSettings.php can help a lot too. Nothing to install > either - "it just works".
Nod. I advocated this early on, but it's not how Chuck has it set. > I've got 2 mediawiki instances going now - one I expect to see more > traffic than the other. This spam prevention is critical. Agreed. The current set up is a bit of a hassle. Each user who wants to be able to edit the wiki has to email to a sysop (currently Chuck, Curt, or me) and be added to the "wikieditors" group. It really does keep out the riff-raff, but it also keeps out legit users. > I also use this extension (LocalSettings.php bit). > > # Enable ConrimEdit Extionsion > # http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit > require_once( "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php" ); > > Any edit/newpage that has a URL going offsite, editor has to do some > 'math' to get it online. Slows the bots down. (yea, some seem to have > figured out the email bit). That is exactly what Scott uses for the info.aprs.net wiki. There's been no spam on that wiki since he implemented it, and there was daily trashing of the site until he did. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
