No, the captcha is there but spammers work around it. I'm not sure but I think they simply hire cheap labor in Asia and Africa to manually type in their spam. The only spam-protection that I've found to really work are the services mollom and akismet that do spam-filtering on a global scale, mostly based on the links embedded in a post. I don't know if a plugin to these exists for mediawiki.
Since we are not a hyper-active project, it's easier to simply have all accounts blocked until approved. (If you guys are unsure of your attentiveness, please add me as admin. We also want to make sure that proper users are still approved in a timely manner.) Crews: When doing that change, you should consider adding some text that people should write an email to drizzle-discuss after registering on the wiki. The problem is that you'll continue to get spam users registering themselves on a weekly basis, so it will be impossible to notice one or two legitimate ones. The best way is to just ask them to send a ping to the mailing list (what spammers won't do). henrik On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Michael Shadle <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought I changed the settings on there and added captcha stuff at least. > Mediawiki is a pile. I don't mind saying it publicly. If anyone knows how to > configure it better I am all ears. I need to look to see what I did to it, I > had made changes to that around the same time as another wiki and may be > getting confused. I had tried a couple anti-spam modules but couldn't even > confirm if they were working 100% (see comment about MW being a pile) > > > > On Jan 28, 2012, at 3:45 PM, pcrews <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are a number of garbage / spam pages that have been added that we >> can't delete either. I'm going through to try to blank the content until we >> can properly remove them. >> >> On 01/28/2012 04:38 PM, Henrik Ingo wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> We have been notified by a friendly netizen that our wiki is full of >>> spam. Indeed: >>> >>> http://wiki.drizzle.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=100 >>> http://wiki.drizzle.org/Special:ListUsers >>> >>> There's more spam than normal activity. >>> >>> I propose that: >>> >>> - we change the settings on the wiki such that users must be approved >>> by an administrator before they can post anything. >>> >>> - this also makes it possible to remove the captcha stuff (since we >>> can then trust all users) which will greatly enhance usability. >>> >>> I don't have admin rights so please Mike or someone else do the above >>> urgently. >>> >>> We then also need to clean up all the spam. Any help there is welcome. >>> >>> henrik >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- [email protected] +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
