On Wednesday 13 April 2011 18:01:30 Kilian wrote: > On 04/13/2011 06:57 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote: > > The spam is getting really tiresome. I turned on ConfirmAccount and > > the spammers continue to ask for accounts even through that mechanism. > > It is a real pain... > > Read this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit works well for me, > with the QuestyCaptcha CAPTCHA type. > What I'd really like to see is the ability to say that you can't make any edits until you have been registered for a period of time, unless you are a member of a higher group. I doubt if the spammers would bother creating an account and coming back to post their spam three months later. I haven't seen anyone suggest that it actually is possible, though.
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