[OpenStack-Infra] Wiki.o.o sustaining spam attack
Tom Fifield
tom at openstack.org
Tue Feb 23 07:43:50 UTC 2016
Cheers, that's exactly what we need someone to do.
On 23/02/16 15:34, JP Maxwell wrote:
> OK - so per the info here, you have to set the type of Captcha and add
> in editing and create page as triggers requiring Captcha.
>
> As an example to use QuestyCaptcha a the bottom of the LocalSettings.php
> file:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha
>
> And make sure the triggers are set:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#Configuration
>
> So, for example (you might want to change the questions), but the below
> should at least stop the bleeding?
>
> require_once "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php";
>
> // Use this line ONLY if your MediaWiki version is 1.25 or newer:
> //wfLoadExtension( 'ConfirmEdit/QuestyCaptcha' );
> // Use this line ONLY if your MediaWiki version is older than 1.25:
> require_once "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/QuestyCaptcha.php";
>
> $wgCaptchaClass = 'QuestyCaptcha';
>
> // Add your questions in LocalSettings.php using this format
> $wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' => "A question?", 'answer' =>
> "An Answer");
> $wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' => 'How much wood would a
> woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?', 'answer' => 'as much
> wood as...' );
> $wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' => "What is this wiki's
> name?", 'answer' => "$wgSitename" );
> // You can also provide several acceptable answers to a given question
> (the answers shall be in lowercase):
> $wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' => "2 + 2 ?", 'answer' =>
> array( '4', 'four' ) );
>
> $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = true;
> $wgCaptchaTriggers['create'] = true;
>
>
> J.P. Maxwell / tipit.net <http://www.tipit.net>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org
> <mailto:tom at openstack.org>> wrote:
>
> For wiki.o.o, I believe this is at:
>
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Special:Version
>
> On 23/02/16 14:51, JP Maxwell wrote:
>
> I did setup a wiki and have a look at this briefly. Can you
> confirm
> what extensions you are loading? When you setup the wiki it
> generates a
> localsettings.php file that lists the extensions:
>
>
>
> Inline image 1
>
> # Enabled Extensions. Most extensions are enabled by including
> the base
> extension file here
> # but check specific extension documentation for more details
> # The following extensions were automatically enabled:
> wfLoadExtension( 'ConfirmEdit' );
> wfLoadExtension( 'InputBox' );
> wfLoadExtension( 'SpamBlacklist' );
> wfLoadExtension( 'TitleBlacklist' );
> wfLoadExtension( 'WikiEditor' );
>
> I think if you have that ConfirmEdit extension you can enable
> captcha
> when creating new pages / editing existing ones. In addition,
> there do
> seem to be some spam extensions that come built in.
>
>
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