[okfn-help] Allotment Finder wiki is filled with spam

Sat Apr 30 13:12:57 BST 2011

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 02:27:13PM +0100, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Thanks Tim! Just reverted spam. Do you know how to prevent anonymous
> editing? (As you can tell, I'm no Mediawiki expert...)

There are a few options that can be made in LocalSettings.php to
prohibit / limit anonymous editing / viewing &c.

    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access

and

    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights

have the details.

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