[virt-tools-list] Wiki has been spammed

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Nov 11 10:25:52 UTC 2011


On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:15:36AM +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On 10/11/11 20:08, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> <snipped>
> >
> >I have just enabled a Captcha on all the wikis hosted on et.redhat.com
> >that allow users to self-create accounts. It will require a math question
> >answer upon account creation, and upon any edit inserting a URL.
> >
> >I will also be enabling mandatory email address confirmation for all
> >users soon.
> >
> >These should cut down on spam problems.
> >
> >Daniel
> 
> Is the maths capta available to all, floss?
> (eventually I'll get back to my own site)

It is from the ConfirmEdit extension:

  https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

Daniel
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