[CREATE] spam blocking tactics for mediawiki

[John Bintz]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 19:38 -0400, John Bintz wrote:
>   
>> Jon Phillips wrote:
>>     
>>> RE: John, I guess we need to update mediawiki versions on our
>>> wikis...John, can you help with :)
>>>       
>> I just downloaded and uncompressed the latest MediaWiki software to my 
>> home directory on hawthorn.  I have enough info in the config files to 
>> do the necessary database backups.  Just need to block off some time to 
>> do the upgrades.  It looks like there's three wikis on the server...how 
>> about I tackle the Create one first, say tomorrow around 9PM EDT, and 
>> take care of the others next week after we know that the Create wiki is 
>> stable?  At the same time I do the upgrade, I'll install reCAPTCHA on 
>> the Create wiki.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>     
>
> This is why you are cool :) Sounds good!
>   
All right, I've upgraded the Create wiki to MediaWiki 1.11.0rc1.  
Unfortunately, the Bad Behavior extension doesn't seem to want to work, 
so I had to disable it.  If someone knows how to get this working, 
please either let me know or make the change yourself.  ;)  
SpamBlacklist and reCAPTCHA are installed, and I turned on APC caching, 
as well.  Let me know if you run into any problems.

John