[sudo-sys] Mediawiki account creation disabled?

[William Budington]

Cool, I just enabled QuestyCaptcha and added a simple question.  We can
add more questions in the future if we want - questions are in
LocalSettings.php

Bill

On 04/04/2013 12:10 PM, Jenny Ryan wrote:
> That was me (thought I'd emailed the list about it?) - a temp solution to a
> botstorm. I'm not sure disabling anonymous edits is even that helpful for
> mitigating spam, but maybe we should implement some tricks in the write
> process (eg answering questions to confirm. Maybe how hackerspaces.org does
> it is a good idea - simple questions that one needs to refer to the
> homepage to answer).
> 
> Anyway, thanks Bill!
> On Apr 4, 2013 11:54 AM, "William Budington" <bill at inputoutput.io> wrote:
> 
>> s/logins/account creations/g
>>
>> On 04/04/2013 11:51 AM, William Budington wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> On march 25th someone disabled anonymous logins for the mediawiki and
>>> added some spam filters.  I'm re-enabling anonymous logins for the time
>>> being.  If account creation is a problem and these settings need to be
>>> changed please email this list and maybe we can come up with a better
>>> solution (mollom?)
>>>
>>> Bill
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