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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 02:43:55PM +0800, Tom Fifield wrote:
> 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;
> 
I have some spare cycles to look at this today.

> 
> 
> 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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