Wiki Defacement

[Jamon Camisso]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Christopher Browne wrote:
> 
>> We've been seeing a lot of defacement on the wiki <http://gtalug.org/>
>> lately; people adding in pages of links to typical sorts of spam
>> things (medicines and such).  We could use more people patrolling
>> things periodically...
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up Chris.  I just spent 30 minutes reverting 
> vandalism/spam.  A spammer is still lurking around as they tried to add 
> a few while I was reverting.  I'll definitely try to keep more of an eye 
> on the site and I'll encourage others to as well.
> 
> IIRC the Mediawiki software has a facility for account creation to 
> require authorisation.  Should we enable this?

Some spam bots create a new account for every edit. I hear good things 
the ConfirmEdit captcha:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

Jamon
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