Re: CAPTCHA for the relax wiki. -- August 09, 2013 - 11:19

Hi Edward.

Damn does bots.

Thanks for taking care!

1) 

I have increased the security, so you need to have link-click confirmed your email,

before you can edit.

2)

I have also made it necessary to do CAPTCHA input, before each submission of

a page edit.

3) 

I installed a Merge and delete users extension for admins.

I have created a user: Spam bot

And merged and deleted all dubious users into that user user.

(Note, total deletion on wiki's is "normally" not possible).

I hope this helps a little.

I am stunned, that the bots can be created at all. ?

You need to pass CAPTCHA, to be able to create a user. ?

Troels Emtekær Linnet

2013/8/9 Edward d'Auvergne <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Troels,

I really think we need to set up a CAPTCHA
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) for the user creation on the
relax wiki (http://wiki.nmr-relax.com).  Maybe for new page creation
as well.  The wiki has been infested with bots and I have been
deleting these accounts and all the pages they created:

http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&offset=&limit=500
http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&offset=&limit=500&type=delete&user=

There's no rush as it's still relatively each to whack these bots.

Regards,

Edward