From: Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch.de>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Wiki spam
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:16:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2339D3.1000901@dresearch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimEnDhJaWu4VMPExRMbTXTmdfo_m5PmZ5_yY-zh@mail.gmail.com>
Am 23.12.2010 23:14, schrieb Khem Raj:
>> ...
>> It looks like someone is spamming our wiki with new users :-(
>>
>> Any ideas where to go from here?
>
> Add a captcha when creating new user acct
I can try to add the ConfirmEdit[1] mediawiki extension for this purpose.
Would a captcha be accepted for user registration by the community? Captchas for the edits itself i consider to be overkill.
Steffen
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-04 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-23 19:36 Wiki spam Ben Gamari
2010-12-23 21:33 ` Cliff Brake
2010-12-23 22:14 ` Khem Raj
2011-01-04 15:16 ` Steffen Sledz [this message]
2011-01-04 18:15 ` AJ ONeal
2011-01-04 18:38 ` Philip Balister
2011-01-04 19:31 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2011-01-04 20:41 ` Bernhard Guillon
2011-01-06 18:57 ` Sledz, Steffen
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2010-11-24 7:50 Wiki SPAM Eric Bénard
2010-11-24 8:38 ` Chris Tapp
2010-11-24 9:24 ` Marco Cavallini
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