Comments on: Avoiding wiki spam in Mediawiki

By: Gordon Morehouse

Gordon Morehouse — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:17:52 +0000

Please see http://wiki.evernex.com/index.php?title=Blocking_Spam_in_Mediawiki for a HOWTO on blocking spam in MediaWiki.

I keep it updated fairly often and run a fairly active small wiki on which I’ve successfully been able to go back to an open edit (no account required) policy. Successful spam attacks in the last 6 months: 0.

By: JoeChongq

JoeChongq — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 02:51:00 +0000

Hi Peter, I have now got my own MediaWiki going to play with and think I have come up with a better regex to block CSS Hidden Spam.

$wgSpamRegex = "//";

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:00:00 +0000

Correct, I am using the 1.4.7 version. In v1.5 it becomes:


  # This replaces wgWhitelistAccount and wgWhitelistEdit
  #
  #
$wgGroupPermissions = array();
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createaccount']   = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['read']            = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['edit']            = false;

By: spam hater

spam hater — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:55:00 +0000

This has changed in wiki 1.5 and no longer works as shown. (and the open source community wonders why they are not taken seriously in the professional world).

See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_Restrictions