Thread:Project:Support desk/Overwhelmed with spammers/reply (9)

I'm happy to finally live life in peace with no spam by:
 * 1) $wgEmailAuthentication = true; // require email authentication for using any email function (except password reminder which works independently from this setting)
 * 2) $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true; // Require a confirmed address to edit pages
 * 3) $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; //Disable anonymous editing
 * 4) Using the Extension:SpamBlacklist
 * 5) Using the Extension:ConfirmEdit - I've found the QuesetyCaptcha to be the simplest and most effective so far.

Hope that brings you peace. :-)

As a side note, I'd like to know how this site (mediawiki.org) manages to allow open posting for non-logged in users without getting spammed to death? Just curious because I don't mind requiring logged-in and email confirmed users to post on my site, but would like to know how mediawiki.org handles this.

Cheers