I require an email round-trip. That seems to do it for our wiki, at least.
But perhaps H.L. Mencken (below, at random) knows something I don't... :-)
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and
wrong. -- H. L. Mencken
Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op
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Personally I've found QuestyCaptcha to be the most reliable. You show the
user an image and they have to guess the right answer. It can be configured
to have several correct answers and to randomly choose from a list of
several image/answers.
I have had zero spammer account creations since I start
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 10:07 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> On 11/26/2013 07:38 AM, Arcane 21 wrote:.
> > only block the IPs and IP ranges that have four or more obvious spammer
> > usernames attached to them, as these are usually mass produced by a bot
> > from zombie computers used to spam.
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 06:33 +, Steph Zhang wrote:
> Why you need to delete those spammer accounts? I thought to ban them with
> their IP address is enough unless others from the same IP address want to
> contribute to your wiki.
This is on a remote server that I pay for the disk space & the ex
On 11/26/2013 07:38 AM, Arcane 21 wrote:.
> only block the IPs and IP ranges that have four or more obvious spammer
> usernames attached to them, as these are usually mass produced by a bot
> from zombie computers used to spam.
This is an interesting feature to add to BlockandNuke[1], but it would
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 06:33:24 +
> From: stephdech...@gmail.com
> To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] SPAMMERS
>
> Why you need to delete those spammer accounts? I thought to ban them with
> their IP address is enough unless others from t
Why you need to delete those spammer accounts? I thought to ban them with
their IP address is enough unless others from the same IP address want to
contribute to your wiki.
Actually at that time when my wiki was under spamming, I accidentally
blocked two IP addresses, and suddenly.. No more sp
Hi John,
I am helping the document foundation with spam issues, and they report a
drastic drop of registrations with questy which is really good. I am
currently working on being able to have localized questions for the said
project. I am not sure how to exactly answer your question though.
My wik
Wow. I am getting clobbered, or was. I shut down the new account system
that was open to the public and set it to be by e-mail confirmation,
then disabled e-mail for a while.. I then used the
deletUnusedAccounts.php a couple of times and it deleted 17860 of the
spammers. But they are a persistant l
an spammers or vandals, check the Abuse Filter extention (link on the
page above).
Erik
--- On Wed, 9/15/10, Steve Nance wrote:
From: Steve Nance
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Spammers got me
To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 7:57 AM
Subject says it
Hi Steve,
see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_vandalism and
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam
You should be able to revert any edits by IP address.
hth
Frank
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Subject says it all. I didn't have Edit and Create page restricted and now
my Text table is 10 gig and my IP is threatening to disable my site if I
don't fix it.
Is there a way to delete all data from the text table except what was
created by the sysop?
I'm sure this has been covered many t
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