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: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 | ||
::[[mw:Extension:QuestyCaptcha|QuestyCaptcha]] is working well too, I use it on the [[Semantic Stargate Wiki]], I see many spam attempts in my configuration space, but none on the wiki. --[[User:LIMAFOX76|LIMAFOX76]] 04:07, 27 June 2012 (PDT) | ::[[mw:Extension:QuestyCaptcha|QuestyCaptcha]] is working well too, I use it on the [[Semantic Stargate Wiki]], I see many spam attempts in my configuration space, but none on the wiki. --[[User:LIMAFOX76|LIMAFOX76]] 04:07, 27 June 2012 (PDT) | ||
:::Questy captcha will definitely always work, as long as your site is not very popular and you sometimes change the questions. | :::Questy captcha will definitely always work, as long as your site is not very popular and you sometimes change the questions. <small>—The preceding [[wikipedia:Help:Using talk pages|unsigned comment]] was added by [[User:Bachsau|Bachsau]] ([[User talk:Bachsau|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Bachsau|contribs]]) 14:16, 27 June 2012 (PDT)</small> | ||
::::WikiIndex is nowhere ''near'' being "overwhelmed" by spam bots; it's — unfortunately — standard spambot activity. Unlike some wikis out there, WikiIndex has active admins and therefore the best the spambots can do is submit a spam page which stays up for a couple hours until it's deleted by an admin. | |||
::::That being said, WikiIndex is once again running an outdated, unsupported release of MediaWiki and not using any other anti-spam extensions than ConfirmEdit and SpamBlacklist. Installing [[mw:Extension:SimpleAntiSpam|the SimpleAntiSpam extension]], and preferrably customizing the MediaWiki:Simpleantispam-label message (I have a feeling that spambots know what text to expect and therefore can skip this trap easily), would most likely help a bit...but in time an all-in-one solution, like Phalanx, should be deployed. Phalanx is an anti-spam extension that combines the features of [[mw:Extension:SpamRegex]], [[mw:Extension:RegexBlock]], [[mw:Extension:TitleBlacklist]], [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist]] into one and even adds some additional features. It needs to be generalized a bit to work on more standard MediaWikis, as it was written with a wiki farm setup in mind. | |||
::::For now, QuestyCaptcha and/or Asirra would be good solutions; though experience shows that Asirra is not as easy to use as one would think; I had users clicking on all images and wondering why the CAPTCHA fails... --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] 08:14, 27 June 2012 (PDT) | |||