I find that an abuse filter (through the AbuseFilter extension) that simply forces new users trying to add links to confirm their edit works quite well.
Alex On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Shirley Hicks <[email protected]>wrote: > Good evening everyone, > First post from a newbie. > > I'm relatively new to wikis, currently administering my second one ever on > behalf of the Red Mountain Makers, http://wiki.redmountainmakers.org. > I just completed a rather large spam cleanup, caused by our failure to > install security and anti-spam extensions. > > Ended up doing it the way that specifically MediaWiki specifically advises > against, editing the user and page tables, as the volume was really, really > high. > The wiki database is now knocked back down to a reasonable size, but I'm > wondering what extensions and tactics users of MediaWiki 1.19.7 find the > most useful for controlling spam? > > I've installed and configured the bad-behavior, SpamBlackList, > ConfirmAccount, Nuke & UserAdmin extensions. The User Admin script is > broken and I haven't yet started to trace that to see if I can fix it to > work with this wiki version. > > Advice? Ideas? > > -- Shirley Hicks > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
