[CREATE] CREATE Digest, Vol 27, Issue 3

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

How does an administrator create new logins when creating anonymously is 
prohibited?
Has MediaWiki a administration page for creating new users by hand?
Or is this some perl/db work?


>    3. Re: spam blocking tactics for mediawiki (j_cupitt at xxx)

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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:21:57 +0100
> From: j_cupitt at xxx
> Subject: Re: [CREATE] spam blocking tactics for mediawiki
> Cc: "CREATE list" <create@>
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> On 9/4/07, Alexandre Prokoudine  wrote:
> > On 9/4/07, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > > I use SpamBlacklist for MediaWiki.
> >
> > We use it as well :)
> 
> How many editors will the wiki have? If it's not that many (less than
> 50?) how about adding a note to the "Log in / create account" page
> inviting people to mail the admin to get logins?
> 
> We've done this on our wiki and have been spam-free for a couple of
> years now. It's annoying for the admin for a couple of days as
> existing users mail and ask, but after that it's very little work.
> 
> John
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