Thanks Ian for working on this!
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Ian Gilfillan <wikimediaza(a)greenman.co.za>
wrote:
I've stopped anonymous users from being able to
create pages, and new
accounts from being created without a sysop. To create a new account for
someone, sysops should use:
http://2017.wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount
I've also deleted most of the spam pages (one gives me a server error when
I try delete it, have blanked that one, will look into it more later).
On 29/12/2016 02:25, Asaf Bartov wrote:
A quick action that can be taken immediately by any admin would be to
block that IP.
A.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 4:24 PM Nkansah Rexford <seanmavley(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Yep, mercilessly indeed.
Some changes from IPs too:
<http://2017.wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=Programme&diff=637&oldid=566>
http://2017.wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=Programme&diff=637&oldid…
On Thursday, December 29, 2016, Asaf Bartov < <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi.
The Indaba wiki is being spammed mercilessly. Perhaps page creation by
non-users should be disabled.
See recent changes:
http://2017.wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges
A.
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