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MediaWiki security > MediaWiki spam protection >

See also:

• Early MediaWiki versions are designed for spamming

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

This one looks better:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100611210621/http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/
^[ 1 ] maybe this is now https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCaptcha

And it _is_ .. wow!!

But it doesn’t actually work. I still got spam the very next day. So spammers who don’t add links can still spam..