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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.
# [[mw:Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protect the MainPage from editing]]
 
There are many more techniques that can be implemented. There are a few extensions bundled with a download version of MediaWiki; described in the [[mw:Manual:Combating_spam]]. And you can see the extensions used on the MediaWiki website itself [[mw:Special:Version|MediaWiki.org]] such as
* [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter]]
* [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit]]
* [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit#FancyCaptcha]]
* [[mw:Extension:AntiSpoof]]
* [[mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist]]
 
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