[Labs-l] Ensure your MediaWiki install is either locked-down or properly patrolled

Wed Oct 3 13:21:34 UTC 2012

On 03/10/12 02:46, Ryan Lane wrote:
> We've had some issues with really bad vandalism on some public
> instances that have MediaWiki installed in such a way that allows
> anonymous editing.
> 
> If you are using MediaWiki and your instance has a public IP which
> allows access to the outside world, then you must lock down your wiki,
> or you must properly patrol it. When community members inform us of a
> vandalised wiki that isn't being cleaned up, we'll be forced to
> disable access to the wiki via the project's security groups.
> 
> - Ryan

Remember you can use the Absentee Landlord extension to have it autolock
itself when no sysop has looked at it for X days. So you don't need to
remember to disable it if it then drops in your priorities.

See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbsenteeLandlord