[Hamara-devel] Spam extensions for mediawiki.

Vikas Tara vik at hamaralinux.org
Sat Mar 28 15:04:56 GMT 2015


On 28/03/15 13:43, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Hi all,
> These are few spam extensions that could be used to harden mediawiki.
> This is used pretty much by English wikipedia as well as few other
> language wikipedias as well :-
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof
These are up and running now
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
Most of the captcha types seem to offer low effectiveness at stopping 
spam. Do you have a view on which one to use?
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist
Installed
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock
Should we block tor users? I guess some people will use tor to hack / 
spam sites - but could do with some views on this.


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