>>> I have a lot of problems with drug spam on my wiki >>> >>> http://arktur.de/Wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/delete >>> http://arktur.de/Wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/block > >> It seems to me that it might be less work if you moderated the >> creation of new accounts. I recently saw an extension, though I have >> not used it, that requires approval by an authorized person before a >> new account is created. > >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount > > Looks good ... > > Followed the "Setup" instructions: > > Downloaded, put into .../Wiki/extensions > > How can I run "ConfirmAccount.sql"? The file exists. > (I'm no experienced MySQL user ...) > > Added "require_once ..." > > How can I run "maintenance/update.php"? The file exists. I cannot run > "php" on the Wiki server, and > > http://arktur.de/Wiki/maintenance/update.php > > leads to "403: forbidden".
Over on the Openoffice.org Wiki, we have similar spam issues.... I've pretty much completely stopped it (a few still leak through, but it's around 1 or 2 every few months rather than hourly as it was before I made the changes to stop it) with a combination of MedaiWiki options and Extensions. The MedaiWiki options you can play with to limit spammers are: # Require users log in to edit $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; This blocks anonymous edits. # Editors must have a valid email address before # being allowed to edit wiki pages $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true; All users must have a valid email address and confirm by clicking a link in an email they receive from the Wiki # Look for specific common spam words on page save, # and block if any found $wgSpamRegex = "/word1|word2|word3|word4/"; In the $wgSpamRegex array, just add your common spam words between the slashes with each word separated by a pipe. This is fairly effective for common spam words, but it requires that you keep up with the spammers and their word variations and misspellings. When a word in your word list is used in the content of any page being saved, the save is intercepted, blocked and a system message is shown saying that $word was used and to contact an admin if it's incorrectly blocking a real page save. The extensions I installed there are: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA which adds a Captcha on new user creation. It's a minor inconvenience to new users, but it adds one more hurdle to spammers. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bad_Behavior This has probably been the number one most effective tool for blocking spammers, and so far after being in place about a year on the OOoWiki has not interfered once (that I am aware of) with regular users. Each of these solutions by themselves are only partially effective, but the combination seems to be doing it's job, and I rarely ever have to block users or delete spam. C. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
