[wpkg-users] Stop creation of fake users at wpkg.org

[Stefan Pendl]

Am 04.05.2015 um 18:48 schrieb Tomasz Chmielewski:
> On 2015-05-05 01:32, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure how to solve it. Animal captcha was working fine I think,
>> but was using an external API from a company which no longer provides
>> it.
>>
>> For now, we're only allowing edits by logged in users with a confirmed
>> email address.
>>
>> Also, we automatically remove any users which don't have any edits and
>> were created more than a week ago.
>>
>> So while I can see that there are many "spammy users" created, the
>> only annoyance seem to be spamming the
>> http://wpkg.org/Special:RecentChanges page.
>>
>> That said - I'll try to check if there is any possibility to prevent
>> user creation if they don't supply an email address.
>
> I see we already require an email address. And, there is a simple (yet 
> not very effective) captcha when user registers.
>
> As a workaround, I've added this extension which hides user creation:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RecentChangesLogFilter
>
> (and any created / unconfirmed will be removed anyway).
>
>
Thanks for taking the time trying to solve this Tomasz.

It is sad to have 50 or more Spam users created each day.

-- 
*Stefan P.*

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