MediaWiki: How to totally prevent anonymous users from register?
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I've installed MediaWiki aiming to create some one-man-editing Wiki (anyone can read it).
I went through the documentation but I found no variable that controls whether anonymous users can create an account or not.
Do you know how can one totally disable the option to create an accounts?
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I've installed MediaWiki aiming to create some one-man-editing Wiki (anyone can read it).
I went through the documentation but I found no variable that controls whether anonymous users can create an account or not.
Do you know how can one totally disable the option to create an accounts?
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asked 14 hours ago
JohnDoeaJohnDoea
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I've installed MediaWiki aiming to create some one-man-editing Wiki (anyone can read it).
I went through the documentation but I found no variable that controls whether anonymous users can create an account or not.
Do you know how can one totally disable the option to create an accounts?
variable mediawiki
asked 14 hours ago
JohnDoeaJohnDoea
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I've installed MediaWiki aiming to create some one-man-editing Wiki (anyone can read it).
I went through the documentation but I found no variable that controls whether anonymous users can create an account or not.
Do you know how can one totally disable the option to create an accounts?
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I've gone through this a few times and you have a couple options. None of these alone will solve all of your fake user issues, but together they will go a long way. Before we about disabling accounts, let's talk about prevention (because you will get more fake accounts in the future). This page has a lot of good information in regards to this topic, but I'll highlight a few things that helped me specifically.
Make sure you add a captcha
Adding a required captcha or re-captcha to a media wiki will help with bots, but less with people spamming the site. I noticed when I added this I saw a large downturn in fake users. Eventually though, they picked back up because real-people began adding to the site.Email validation
If you're running a more personal media wiki (for example, a research lab) it may be practical to have users admins authenticate additional users. Of course, this isn't practical if this is a general media wiki site. You can also enable email validation for the users themselves. You'd be suprised how far you can go with requiring users to put in a valid email.Password Security
You can require that your password be very specfic in order to combat bot usage that many times have a specfic combination of letters and numbers for their generated passwords. Plus, you can set password expirations to help with bots that are stateless.
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I've gone through this a few times and you have a couple options. None of these alone will solve all of your fake user issues, but together they will go a long way. Before we about disabling accounts, let's talk about prevention (because you will get more fake accounts in the future). This page has a lot of good information in regards to this topic, but I'll highlight a few things that helped me specifically.
Make sure you add a captcha
Adding a required captcha or re-captcha to a media wiki will help with bots, but less with people spamming the site. I noticed when I added this I saw a large downturn in fake users. Eventually though, they picked back up because real-people began adding to the site.Email validation
If you're running a more personal media wiki (for example, a research lab) it may be practical to have users admins authenticate additional users. Of course, this isn't practical if this is a general media wiki site. You can also enable email validation for the users themselves. You'd be suprised how far you can go with requiring users to put in a valid email.Password Security
You can require that your password be very specfic in order to combat bot usage that many times have a specfic combination of letters and numbers for their generated passwords. Plus, you can set password expirations to help with bots that are stateless.
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I've gone through this a few times and you have a couple options. None of these alone will solve all of your fake user issues, but together they will go a long way. Before we about disabling accounts, let's talk about prevention (because you will get more fake accounts in the future). This page has a lot of good information in regards to this topic, but I'll highlight a few things that helped me specifically.
Make sure you add a captcha
Adding a required captcha or re-captcha to a media wiki will help with bots, but less with people spamming the site. I noticed when I added this I saw a large downturn in fake users. Eventually though, they picked back up because real-people began adding to the site.Email validation
If you're running a more personal media wiki (for example, a research lab) it may be practical to have users admins authenticate additional users. Of course, this isn't practical if this is a general media wiki site. You can also enable email validation for the users themselves. You'd be suprised how far you can go with requiring users to put in a valid email.Password Security
You can require that your password be very specfic in order to combat bot usage that many times have a specfic combination of letters and numbers for their generated passwords. Plus, you can set password expirations to help with bots that are stateless.
answered 14 hours ago
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I've gone through this a few times and you have a couple options. None of these alone will solve all of your fake user issues, but together they will go a long way. Before we about disabling accounts, let's talk about prevention (because you will get more fake accounts in the future). This page has a lot of good information in regards to this topic, but I'll highlight a few things that helped me specifically.
Make sure you add a captcha
Adding a required captcha or re-captcha to a media wiki will help with bots, but less with people spamming the site. I noticed when I added this I saw a large downturn in fake users. Eventually though, they picked back up because real-people began adding to the site.Email validation
If you're running a more personal media wiki (for example, a research lab) it may be practical to have users admins authenticate additional users. Of course, this isn't practical if this is a general media wiki site. You can also enable email validation for the users themselves. You'd be suprised how far you can go with requiring users to put in a valid email.Password Security
You can require that your password be very specfic in order to combat bot usage that many times have a specfic combination of letters and numbers for their generated passwords. Plus, you can set password expirations to help with bots that are stateless.
answered 14 hours ago
juicedatomjuicedatom
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I've gone through this a few times and you have a couple options. None of these alone will solve all of your fake user issues, but together they will go a long way. Before we about disabling accounts, let's talk about prevention (because you will get more fake accounts in the future). This page has a lot of good information in regards to this topic, but I'll highlight a few things that helped me specifically.
Make sure you add a captcha
Adding a required captcha or re-captcha to a media wiki will help with bots, but less with people spamming the site. I noticed when I added this I saw a large downturn in fake users. Eventually though, they picked back up because real-people began adding to the site.Email validation
If you're running a more personal media wiki (for example, a research lab) it may be practical to have users admins authenticate additional users. Of course, this isn't practical if this is a general media wiki site. You can also enable email validation for the users themselves. You'd be suprised how far you can go with requiring users to put in a valid email.Password Security
You can require that your password be very specfic in order to combat bot usage that many times have a specfic combination of letters and numbers for their generated passwords. Plus, you can set password expirations to help with bots that are stateless.
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