Re: [Adonthell-general] Wiki upgraded

[Kai Sterker]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Kai Sterker <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've also had another go at anit-spam measures and installed the
> TitleBlacklist extension:
>
>   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist
>
> That should hopefully cut down on the number of spam accounts created
> each day and hopefully allows us in the future to lift the editing
> restrictions for new (legitimate) users.

After some tweaking, there have been no new spam accounts created for
a week now. So it looks like TitleBlacklist is a mediawiki extension
to recommend. Will keep monitoring it for a while, but it seems we
might be able to loosen the editing restrictions if bots are unable to
create accounts.

Kai