When one is combating spam there is no magic bullet. A overview of spam
management can be found at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam.
For basics I would implement a captcha system, I would recommend the
following extensions: checkuser, AbuseFilter, Nuke, PageTriage, and
SpamBlac
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:47 AM John wrote:
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> You are going to kick yourself, users don't have the "edit" user right.
So - If i want people to add new content - How do they if they cant
edit or add pages (with approval of any changes).
Whats the point in a wiki having users at all ?
If i want
You are going to kick yourself, users don't have the "edit" user right. If
you want to reconfigure the email process you will probably need to write
your own extension to do so. I would really recommend against that.
Why do you want a custom email process?
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:18 PM wrote:
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:56 AM John wrote:
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> When you edit with the test account what error message do you get?
No edit, no new-page creation, no error..
The options i get in the top right (test account) are: Page,
Discussion, View source, History, Watch
A new user joining the wiki has no
See
https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSMTP
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 6:56 PM John wrote:
> When you edit with the test account what error message do you get?
>
> There is a setting for localsettings.php for using an existing email
> server. Give me a minute to look that up.
>
> On Thu, Jun 7,
When you edit with the test account what error message do you get?
There is a setting for localsettings.php for using an existing email
server. Give me a minute to look that up.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 5:41 PM wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 8:39 AM John wrote:
> >
> > Odds are your getting ham
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 8:39 AM John wrote:
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> Odds are your getting hammered by spambots. If you want to test create a
> new account and see if that account has any issues
>
Duh - obvious.. i should have thought of creating a test account before.
Ok, test account created, I am now in groups:-
Odds are your getting hammered by spambots. If you want to test create a
new account and see if that account has any issues
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 4:35 PM wrote:
> Hello, I'm the admin of a mediawiki, & have posted to an incorrect
> thread & have been redirected here...
>
>
> My main initial que
Hello, I'm the admin of a mediawiki, & have posted to an incorrect
thread & have been redirected here...
My main initial queries is/are
a) I occasionally check my wiki & see there are dozens / hundreds of
people signing up as users - but no one is creating any pages.
is there a place i can see
