On 11/20/2012 06:46, tj wrote:
Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on
a ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know.
Any Administrator ("sysop") can create a new user account. I will
research what change is required to block other sign-up methods.
Currently, Mwiki is under massive attack by spammers. Thanks to the
valiant efforts of volunteers Adailton, Helen russian, Pitonyak, and
Yak, we are staying even: the lifetime of spam may be a few hours, but
is usually only a few minutes.
However, the spammers are creating new spam accounts (the pattern in the
names is quite apparent) at a rate of one every minute or two, and 24/7.
We cannot survive that kind of onslaught indefinitely.
To be continued.
The necessary change to LocalSettings.php (the file which provides most
settings to the wiki) is shown in MediaWiki documentation:
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_account_creation>
The instructions for sysops to create accounts are there, too.
@imacat: would you please make this happen?
/tj/
