Preventing spam on MediaWiki
From ULYSSIS documentation
Google's recaptcha
What is recaptcha and how/will it help prevent spam ?
For answers to those questions you can look at google's page about recaptcha( https://google.com/recaptcha)
Installation
This installation guide requires mediawiki 1.26 or higher
- Go to google's recaptcha administrator page(https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin) and register your site
- Open your *LocalSettings.php* file which is in your mediawiki instalation folder
- Put the following piece of text in the above mentioned file
require_once "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php";
wfLoadExtension( 'ConfirmEdit/ReCaptchaNoCaptcha' );
$wgCaptchaClass = 'ReCaptchaNoCaptcha';
$wgReCaptchaSiteKey = ' your public/site key here ';
$wgReCaptchaSecretKey = ' your private key here ';
example of public and private key (https://i.imgur.com/vGJKEXx.png)
- mediawiki wil start loading recaptcha in the background and once done wil start using recaptcha for defending you from bots
