The site suffered some serious spam attacks today, so I took so severe measures as well. Installed 3 different anti spam plugins, one blacklist for ips and words, 1 for detecting automated scripts and another one that introduced captchas when a new page is created or a current page is edited to introduce an URL only (these URLs have whitelists tho and I have added a small list of websites to the trusted list http://comp.tf/wiki/MediaWiki:Captcha-addurl-whitelist) this just means you won't be asked for captcha when editing with these links, you can still post other links, but you will have to enter a captcha.
Captchas will only appear to non registered/loged in users or users with no confirmed email address. If you are registered on the site and have confirmed your email address you shouldn't have to worry about captchas.
These anti spam measures should prevent massive attacks like the ones from today.
Hope you all guys can keep contributing. Still trying to solve the auto thumbnail bug
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