Fwd: Reducing spam on Erights Wiki

Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Begin forwarded message:

> From: James Graves <[email protected]>
> Date: March 17, 2011 16:15:50 EDT
> To: Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Reducing spam on Erights Wiki
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 06:35:34PM -0400, Kevin Reid wrote:
>> It seems like it would reduce the noise of the more persistent
>> spambots if we prohibited the creation of any page whose name starts
>> with "Talk:/", which seems reasonably unlikely to be legitimate.
>>
>> If MediaWiki doesn't support this well it could be done as a regex
>> match on the URL in Apache, perhaps?
>
> That's not a bad idea.
>
> I'll have the new server ready soon.  After that is stable, I'll have
> another look at anti-spam plugins and whatnot available for MediaWiki.
>
> James

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