[Olpc-sysadmin] [Wiki-gang] Wiki spam: temporarily add captchas for IP-user edits

[Samuel Klein]

yes, it's a good idea; we put that in our LocalSettings last night too.   --SJ

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Mel Chua <mel at laptop.org> wrote:
> Got this comment on my blog on another easy fix for this.
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> http://blog.melchua.com/2008/12/17/wiki-vandalism-the-firefight/
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> E-mail : christof at damian.net
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> I had the same problem on http://krass.com/ . I have a captcha on, but
> just with the default settings, so anonymous users can edit texts if it
> doesn't contain links.
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> I now added $wgSpamRegex = '/FIELD_OTHER/' to the LocalSettings to get
> rid of this annoying vandal.
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