Get them before they wipe out our works, plant links and cause mayhem.
Maybe you can create some code to link our BM a/c to wiki a/c, so that those who don't have a BM a/c can't create an wiki a/c? Not the best idea though.
I have a somewhat of a simple solution, goes along with the wiki team idea.
In order to make an account it has to be approved by a wiki Administrator, you would be encouraged to make an account in accordance with your battle master family last name or Forum name for verification before being approved.
so let the spam bots make away it'll never get approved without proper verification.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Title_blacklist
Well, let's give it a day or two and see what happens. I'm not all that good with regexes.
Well, let's give it a day or two and see what happens. I'm not all that good with regexes.
$username="fish23";
if (preg_match_all('/[0-9]{2}$/i', $username, $result)==1)
{
echo "Match found";
}
else
{
echo "no match found";
}
I've also included the public blacklist here:Does that mean that the regexes on the wikimedia page will also be used by our wiki?http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Title_blacklist
Does that mean that the regexes on the wikimedia page will also be used by our wiki?
There may be some kind of captcha extension or something.
Do you know of any extensions that could do that sort of thing? It has to be a supported extension. Hand-coding our own modifications to MediaWiki isn't a viable solution.