I use a fairly excellent tool for preventing spam on my blog called Akismet. I just looked and there is no plugin for it for MediaWiki. However, there appears to be a fairly successful anti-spam plugin called Bad Behavior available that might be worth looking into.
On 5/15/07, DJ Ortley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Found this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_Features Though, if you read the top of that page, it has a comment: *This page should be moved<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:MetaProject_to_transfer_content_to_MediaWiki.org>to MediaWiki.org <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/>*. So, expect that it should change. I found it by googling for 'wikimedia spam' There's also this, which I think might be worth reading: http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2571 My personal opinion is that we should err on the side of being more restrictive than not. -DJ On 5/15/07, DM Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was recently pointed out on our support list that our wiki is being > vandalized. > > It's kinda disturbing, but there is a bunch of vandalism. Mostly > advertizement/spam. It is easy to find by going to recent changes. > > Here is an offensive example: > http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Frontends:BibleCS > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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