Yeah I've been checking that out.. I'll have to test it.. does Open ID work with facebook?
Thanks Adrian --- On Tue, 2/8/11, Frederick Grose <fgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Frederick Grose <fgr...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how do I restrict the length of usernames? > To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 2:56 PM > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:54 PM, 2...@gmaskfx.com > <2...@gmaskfx.com> > wrote: > > > I've tried every flavor of confirmedit and none of > them seem block the > > worse offenders. I tried ReCaptcha but now the bots or > the person determined > > to get around that get through and post their spam > anyway. If I could I'd > > have several of these at once just for account > creation. > > > > I'm trying the question based one now and hopefully > that won't be too hard > > for the people I want to actually edit the wiki. > > > > Speaking of questy captcha.. is it possible to have > one question and > > several answers? > > > > $wgCaptchaQuestions[1] = array( 'question' => > "Question?", 'answer' => > > "answer1", 'answer' => "answer2", 'answer' => > "answer3" ); > > > > --- On Tue, 2/8/11, Łukasz Garczewski <t...@wikia-inc.com> > wrote: > > > > > From: Łukasz Garczewski <t...@wikia-inc.com> > > > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how do I restrict the > length of usernames? > > > To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" > < > > mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 12:43 PM > > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 PM, 2...@gmaskfx.com > > > <2...@gmaskfx.com> > > > wrote: > > > > Uh thanks for the help.. just getting > frustrated > > > because I'm getting hammered with spam and I have > tried > > > everything in the manual and little of it is > helping. > > > > > > Try installing the ConfirmEdit extension. That > should help. > > > :) > > > > > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit > > > > > > -- > > > Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski > > > Wikia Tech Team > > > > We suffered many attacks and fortunately had the OpenID > login extension, > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID > > installed and so decided to disable native wiki account > creation with this > in LocalSettings.php: > > # Prevent new user registrations except by sysops > $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; > > Then updated MediaWiki:Loginprompt to > > suggest that new users create accounts with an OpenID. > > This seems to repel the attacks. > > Many users will already have OpenID authentication via > their email accounts > or other popular web sites. > > > --Fred > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
