Hi, No problems, I'll keep watching and see what happens. I've had quite some experience cleaning up after spam bots, as they attacked the relax news system at https://gna.org/news/?group=relax. As for the CAPTCHA for setting up a new account, I checked yesterday and there was none. Today it's working though. We just have to keep watching and see what happens. Maybe a better CAPTCHA is required if they can still come through. One question though, how do I use the merge and delete extension?
Cheers, Edward On 9 August 2013 11:18, Troels Emtekær Linnet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Edward. > > Damn does bots. > Thanks for taking care! > > 1) > I have increased the security, so you need to have link-click confirmed your > email, > before you can edit. > > 2) > I have also made it necessary to do CAPTCHA input, before each submission of > a page edit. > > 3) > I installed a Merge and delete users extension for admins. > I have created a user: Spam bot > And merged and deleted all dubious users into that user user. > (Note, total deletion on wiki's is "normally" not possible). > > I hope this helps a little. > > I am stunned, that the bots can be created at all. ? > You need to pass CAPTCHA, to be able to create a user. ? > > > > > Troels Emtekær Linnet > > > 2013/8/9 Edward d'Auvergne <[email protected]> >> >> Hi Troels, >> >> I really think we need to set up a CAPTCHA >> (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) for the user creation on the >> relax wiki (http://wiki.nmr-relax.com). Maybe for new page creation >> as well. The wiki has been infested with bots and I have been >> deleting these accounts and all the pages they created: >> >> >> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&offset=&limit=500 >> >> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&offset=&limit=500&type=delete&user= >> >> There's no rush as it's still relatively each to whack these bots. >> >> Regards, >> >> Edward > > _______________________________________________ relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com) This is the relax-devel mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, visit the list information page at https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/relax-devel
