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Wiki and bots - darksun84 - 01-10-2013 11:59 PM
Even if the stalwart administrators continues to block and delete the bot's spam, i think that this is a "losing battle" .
My suggestions
1-Block the wiki account creation, if someone want to register he has to send an apply/email to one of the administrators.
2-If someone want to register, he must confirm the registration by email(actually the email is optional, maybe this option will not block the spam entirely but it will reduce it I guess).
RE: Wiki and bots - sco - 01-11-2013 12:49 AM
My suggestion:
Install TitleBlacklist Extension and get it running.
Create MediaWiki:Titleblacklist page with this line:
.*[0-9]+.* <newaccountonly>
This will counter almost every bot's account creation (works more than fine for me). Although some Bots might slip through, but that's something to get along with then.