Spam

Draft

Mediawiki spamming

There exist several strategies:

Registered users

To fight spamming, only registered uses should be able to edit. Edit Localsettings.php

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit']            = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount']   = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read']            = true;

Making login more difficult

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

Links

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam