Apr 102007
This afternoon we’ve had a flurry of edits in the “vandalism” category on MDC. It appears that a bot of some kind is periodically signing up for new accounts and then damaging pages. Unfortunately, most of these appear to be coming from different IP addresses.
After trying for a while to be patient and just keep up with it, we finally had to ask IT to find a solution. As a result, at least for the time being, IT is going to adjust our MediaWiki configuration to require email confirmation for new user signups.
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With the MozillaZine Knowledge Base, new accounts can only be created by existing members. Sorta like getting a voucher for CVS access, or emailing Gerv for editbug permissions on BMO. How about a similar approach for MDC and Wiki.m.o?
The problem with that is that we really want to encourage people to edit on a whim.