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I created a new template to put on spammers user page. See if you like it [[Template:Spammer]], rgds, [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] 07:13, 20 June 2011 (PDT) | I created a new template to put on spammers user page. See if you like it [[Template:Spammer]], rgds, [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] 07:13, 20 June 2011 (PDT) | ||
==WikiIndex is being overwhelmed by spam bots== | |||
== WikiIndex is being overwhelmed by spam bots == | |||
Please install the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Asirra Asirra extension] to stop this. --[[User:Bachsau|Bachsau]] 00:08, 27 June 2012 (PDT) | Please install the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Asirra Asirra extension] to stop this. --[[User:Bachsau|Bachsau]] 00:08, 27 June 2012 (PDT) | ||
:I don't think we are being "overwhelmed" per se, spam pages tend to be deleted by me or other admins fairly quickly. That being said, Asirra is the most interesting anti-spam extensions I've ever seen. It won't make us immune (see [[Referata]] which has this extension installed fighting spambots [http://www.referata.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges here]) but it it might reduce spam. '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]''' 27 June 2012 | :I don't think we are being "overwhelmed" per se, spam pages tend to be deleted by me or other admins fairly quickly. That being said, Asirra is the most interesting anti-spam extensions I've ever seen. It won't make us immune (see [[Referata]] which has this extension installed fighting spambots [http://www.referata.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges here]) but it it might reduce spam. '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]''' 27 June 2012 | ||
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::::There's also the [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter|AbuseFilter extension]], which allows privileged users (administrators) to define certain rules, and if an edit matches one of these rules, it could be tagged as suspicious, or you could even prevent the submission of the edit and block the user submitting it. It's enabled on all Wikimedia wikis and plenty of other wikis (though again, I'm not sure if a 1.17-compatible version exists and/or how stable & feature-rich such a version would be). --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] 08:53, 27 June 2012 (PDT) | ::::There's also the [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter|AbuseFilter extension]], which allows privileged users (administrators) to define certain rules, and if an edit matches one of these rules, it could be tagged as suspicious, or you could even prevent the submission of the edit and block the user submitting it. It's enabled on all Wikimedia wikis and plenty of other wikis (though again, I'm not sure if a 1.17-compatible version exists and/or how stable & feature-rich such a version would be). --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] 08:53, 27 June 2012 (PDT) | ||
Asirra is a damn good anti-spambot measure, although it can be a pain to get set up properly. You have to watch out for a common problem in which it doesn't let users through even when they get the CAPTCHA right. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 18:15, 12 September 2012 (PDT) | Asirra is a damn good anti-spambot measure, although it can be a pain to get set up properly. You have to watch out for a common problem in which it doesn't let users through even when they get the CAPTCHA right. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 18:15, 12 September 2012 (PDT) | ||
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