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Hi all,

Spam pages now outnumber content pages on our wiki.

I have stopped trying to keep up with deleting them, after putting in 
many, many hours.


Is there any chance someone can make the configuration changes I posted 
a couple weeks back, as an emergency measure?


*  update Apache web server configuration to block all spammer IPs in 
lists available from www.stopforumspam.com . Alternate, use the 
mediawiki plugin that does the same: 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StopForumSpam

* Configre the ConfirmEdit extension to set it to display a CAPTCHA when 
creating a new page:

$wgCaptchaTriggers['create']        = true;



Regards,


Tom

On 15/02/16 22:05, Tom Fifield wrote:
> Is there anyone who can help with this? There's still a ton of spam
> going in, and manually cleaning it is a ton of effort.
>
> On 12/02/16 06:40, Tom Fifield wrote:
>> OK, so, MediaWiki nas a nice manual on how to combat spam (
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam )
>>
>> Would it be possible to get these implemented:
>>
>> *  update Apache web server configuration to block all spammer IPs in
>> lists available from www.stopforumspam.com . Alternate, use the
>> mediawiki plugin that does the same:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StopForumSpam
>>
>> * Configre the ConfirmEdit extension to set it to display a CAPTCHA when
>> creating a new page:
>>
>> $wgCaptchaTriggers['create']        = true;
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On 12/02/16 11:08, Tom Fifield wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Since about 11th January, wiki.o.o has been under attack by spammers.
>>>
>>> They're creating new pages at a rate of more than 50 a day, with titles
>>> that hint at calling certain phone numbers for various services.
>>>
>>> If you look at
>>>
>>> https://wiki.openstack.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages
>>>
>>> you'll see them.
>>>
>>> It's across more than a dozen user accounts. I'm going to attempt some
>>> cleaning, but we probably need to look for an extension to do something
>>> about this pro-actively.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
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