Hi all My site had the same problem. The best answer I ever found was the ConfirmEdit extension combined with dynamic questions. See here: http://thingelstad.com/stopping-mediawiki-spam-with-dynamic-questy-captchas/
It has effectively wiped out spam on my site (a very, very large site). I was spending upwards of two hours a day just cleaning spam out before I found Thingelstad's beautiful answer. Sent from my iPad On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Yudi Wijaya <yudigad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > My site ( www.indopancing.com/wiki ) just got bombed by spam bots since > last week, i already implement re-captcha few days ago on user > registration, but still not help. > Then, i try protect all access from spam bots: > > ---cut--- > > $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; > $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createaccount'] = false; > > $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; > $wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false; > $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true; > > # Anonymous users can't create pages > $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false; > > # Only users with accounts four days old or older can create pages > # Requires MW 1.6 or higher. > $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createpage'] = false; > $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['createpage'] = false; > $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createpage'] = true; > > ---cut--- > > Looks like it's working, no spam bots anymore.. > > Now, the next problem is my wiki site: > - Full of user account junk from spam bots > - Full of new page creation from spam bots > > Luckily the spam bots not change/edit my wiki page. > > I already backup the MySQL database with phpMyAdmin > > What do you think? > 1. Does using http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BlockandNuke is safe? > I just create / edit new page using admin account, there is no other > account create / edit page. > 2. Actually I prefer do fresh installation of MediaWiki and copy paste 1000 > contents from old one to the new one. Because i worry deleting user account > / page from spam bots still leave junk in my site. > > Do you have any sugestion for this problem? > > Thank you > > Best Regards, > Yudi > _______________________________________________ > 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
