[Olpc-sysadmin] [laptop.org #27856] Wiki spam: temporarily add captchas for IP-user edits
Mel Chua
mel at melchua.com
Wed Dec 17 22:11:06 EST 2008
Thanks, Henry! Copying the VIG and wiki-gang on this so they know what
happened as a result (removing sysadmin@ so the ticket won't reopen).
Good to hear this one is (hopefully) over.
--Mel
sysadmin at laptop.org wrote:
> Sj installed three extensions/features last night (2008-12-17)
>
> ConfirmEdit.php
> wgSpamBlacklist
> CommentSpammer.php
>
> The first will make it harder for anons to insert URL's
> The second allows you to explicitly block edits that include a
> particular given string
> The third uses an active honeypot site to track IP's that seem to be
> comment spamming.
>
> The only good way to block page blanking is to run a bot, per SJ.
>
> He says ask Dogi what he found out about anti-vandalism bots.
>
> --HH.
More information about the Olpc-sysadmin
mailing list