[Discuss] BattleMaster Wiki under attack by Spam bots

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 12 Apr 2007 at 15:30, Tom wrote:

> On 04/11/2007 09:44 PM, Robert Croson, Jr wrote:
> > LilWolf's suggestion of Bad Behavior looks interesting. It's supposed to block the 
> > bots *before* they get a chance to make edits, as opposed to filtering the edits.
> >
> > http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/
> >
> > This program is listed on the MediaWiki anti-spam features page.
> >
> > It looks easy enough to install. You supposedly just set a few variables in the 
> > config file, upload the Bad-Behavior folder to the MediaWiki extensions 
> > directory, and add an include statement to the LocalSettings.php file.
> >   
> 
> Ok, installed.
> 
> Anyone know how I can verify that it works? :-)

Log files? There is supposed to be some way to turn on verbose logging.

Besides that, we can wait and see if it works. I've reverted 12 or 15 bot edits in 
the past 24 hours. We should know in the next day or two.



-- 
Rob

If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.




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