On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:

> Spam bots are creating accounts on my music wiki (
> http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/Special:RecentChanges). What is the best
> extension to prevent this? I installed ConfirmEdit and tried the default
> CAPTCHA (SimpleCAPTCHA) but it didn't stop the bots.  Before I experiment
> with the many other options, I thought I'd ask what people recommend.
>
> Fortunately the bots can't edit articles, just create useless accounts.
>
> Thanks,
> DanB
>

Requiring OpenID for new accounts is also effective.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
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