[CREATE] spam blocking tactics for mediawiki

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 22:26 -0400, John Bintz wrote: 
> 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

This is great John. It is working for me and is a good defense for
spammers...if only we had an offense ;)

Cool, and runs great! How is the APC speedups everyone?

Jon

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