Thread:Project:Support desk/Media Wiki is a spam machine unless it is set up properly./reply (10)

Setting p a bot needs a rather good understanding of the MediaWiki internals, maybe a PC with some scripting language and other funky stuff. This is by no means something, that a beginner should be advised to try; it won't work, he will fail, demotivation and so on. I would start configuring the extensions, which come with the release tarball.