Thread:Project:Support desk/Combating Spam with only GUI Features

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Is there a way to combat spam without editing configuration files or adding extensions? The wiki is already set to only allow users with confirmed email addresses to create/edit pages, but the spambots get around this. Every day, around a dozen new accounts and new pages are created. Each account is only used once, and each spam page is only created once, so blocking the spammers and protecting the spam pages after deletion has no effect. I'm only a sysop so I don't have the ability to do anything not provided in the GUI. My ability to contact the administrator is intermittent at best so by this point I've pretty much given up on installing extensions such as Bad Behavior or having a CAPTCHA. In fact I'm even considering just abandoning the wiki to the spammers; I'm just about the only legitimate editor there at this point and the spammers seem content to only create new orphan pages for the most part.