My wiki home page was spammed and someone changed the home page to a spammy message. Is there a way to prohibit changes until approved?
Also, since I set up Mediawiki I started receiving spam emails to the email I used to set it up. Any way to avoid this? If not I may have to remove the wiki from my site.
Yes, you can use Extension:FlaggedRevs for that.
For the emails you can try setting this in LocalSettings.php:
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['sendemail'] = false;
Please respond, if this prevents users from sending emails via Special:EmailUser!
You will also be interested in the page combating spam! E.g. you can protect important pages or disallow IPs from editing or or or...
Point one: Semi-protect the main page or protect to allow edit's only by administrators. Other way is to prevent Spam with several Spam extensions, for this see this Manual.
Point two: Why you should recieve Spam, when you install a sofware on your own server? I think either your E-Mailadress was inserted in a spam list by another way, or you published your address in one of the wiki page :)
Thank you for your reply. I will have a look at your tips. Regarding your question re: SPAM, I did not enter my email address anywhere on the website which is why I am a bit confused why spam started showing in my inbox a few days after I installed the wiki...
Most likely that is the misconception that two events, which coincide temporarily must also be causally determined by each other. However, this is not the case. A classical Cum hoc ergo propter hoc.
