{"id":1404,"date":"2007-07-12T18:30:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T02:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/12\/how-to-stop-mediawiki-spam\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T23:46:20","slug":"how-to-stop-mediawiki-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/how-to-stop-mediawiki-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop mediawiki spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started getting spam on a Mediawiki based project I belong to, <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.orbswarm.com\">SWARM<\/a>. I installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Extension:ConfirmEdit\">ConfirmEdit<\/a> extension and haven&#8217;t had another spam yet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wiki first launched March 2007.<\/li>\n<li>First spam May 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Last Spam&#8230; that same day. :-)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Update 4-4-08: eventually, I started getting spam through this. So I had to lock down the wiki. I disabled registration and made it so only logged-in users can edit. No more problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started getting spam on a Mediawiki based project I belong to, SWARM. I installed the ConfirmEdit extension and haven&#8217;t had another spam yet. Wiki first launched March 2007. First spam May 2007. Last Spam&#8230; that same day. :-) Update 4-4-08: eventually, I started getting spam through this. So I had to lock down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}