MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist

Might be less tedious and troublesome to disable account creation for now and set it to e-mail verification. Updating MediaWiki to the latest version may also be of benefit as it has some better goodies to protect the system. See here @ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html These Bitcoin buffoons are seriously in need of some med's, legal or otherwise. EDIT: Another option to consider, not only to protect the wiki and all of OpenSimulator.org would be to update Apache Server and mod the httpd.conf and reflect it in .htaccess    There are major lists of "Bad Bots" which you can further add in here but the material here is a darned good start to blocking the trashers &amp; spammers as well as getting rid of the scrapers which can seriously slow down the website &amp; server response times. .htacess to match above


 * I agree that it would be a lot less tedious, and would most likely stop these bitcoiners dead in their dumb tracks.
 * Unfortunately, i can't change how accounts are created/verified, i would need higher privileges for that.
 * You may want to make thise suggestion to User:Makopoppo, who does have such permissions.
 * I do fully support the idea though. Just let them verify their account through email, it will take care of at least 90% of all spam, if not more!
 * --Fritigern 13:10, 28 March 2012 (PDT)


 * Unfortunately, since I have no account on the server hosting this wiki, so I can't do that. And, this page is ignored by wiki until it have title blacklist extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist). Remember that updating wiki and installing any extension needs *server* account, not wiki's. Anyway, I'll poke Justin about this issue. -- Makopoppo 15:09, 28 March 2012 (PDT)


 * Hi folks. I'll look to install TitleBlacklist soon and update mediawiki in that priority order.  Thanks!  -- Justincc 19:41, 29 March 2012 (PDT)


 * Spam seems to have ceased. I don't know who did what, but it's peaceful time now. Thank you, someone! -- Makopoppo 03:34, 30 March 2012 (PDT)


 * Just in case it comes back I've now installed the TitleBlacklist extension. Please let me know if there are any issues.  I've also badgered coyled to upgrade :) -- Justincc 18:08, 30 March 2012 (PDT)


 * I tested it on this account. It works fine now. Thank you! -- MakoBot 20:42, 30 March 2012 (PDT)