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One of the bigger problems facing a public wiki is spam. There are We've used only a couple of effective ways at preventing few techniques to prevent SPAMin this public wiki, and these techniques have but they've worked well for us.

Before preventing SPAM, you can [[mw:Manual:Preventing_access|prevent access]], and that's the approach that we've employed so far. Using [[mw:Manual:$wgGroupPermissions]] we've disabled all privileges by default, and then allow read-only access to the wiki. We did use the [[mw:Extension:ConfirmAccount]] extension, but we've even turned that off and simply request users to contact a Sys Admin for an account -- making the process manual and personal. Additionally, we# The Use the [http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ BadBehavior] extension.