The best solution I found was to require autoconfirmed accounts to have multiple posts before being promoted, and requiring email confirmation in conjunction with a captcha. Spammers will spend money to solve the captcha to create accounts but when they have to solve ten more before autoconfirmed, they never waste the time. On Sep 20, 2013 3:49 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" <eagles051...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Document Foundation has the same issue with spam, what seems to really > mitigate the problem is the questy captcha the problem is that of > localization. i know the creator had started something of the sort and I am > hoping to find time to help him out. > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Ivan Sanders <ivansand...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I thought I had this sorted, but I clearly dont. I have new users being > > created and content uploaded. Email seems to be intermittent - sometimes > I > > get notifications, other times I don't > > > > URL is at > > http://www.actscoutaction.org.au/wiki/index.php/Special:RecentChanges > > > > > > Here's some detail > > > > LocalSettings.php: > > > > # Disable anonymous editing > > // Implicit group for all anonymous > > $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = false; > > $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true; > > $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false; > > $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createpage'] = false; > > $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createtalk'] = false; > > > > $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges = array( 'WikiSysop', 'IvanSanders' ); > > > > Versions are: > > > > MediaWiki 1.21.2 PHP 5.3.26 (litespeed) MySQL 5.5.32-31.0 > > > > > > Any help appreciated > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Ivan > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > -- > Jonathan Aquilina > _______________________________________________ > 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
