Write access to the wiki

King, Michael MKing at bridgew.edu
Tue Sep 19 17:15:33 CEST 2006


-----Original Message-----
No, actually you cant. I disabled new user creation as a all the spam
bots appeared to be smart enough to create new users then use them for
spamming.


Peter,

MediaWiki has a captcha extension to prevent this problem.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_extension

Just an FYI.  (If you know about it, but choose not to use it, that's OK
as well, since captcha is not the silver bullet, just an obstruction
that most spambots don't have a way around)




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