On 12/04/2009 04:37:00 PM, Helmut Hullen - Hullen@t-online.de wrote:
Hallo, mediawiki-l,
I have a lot of problems with drug spam on my wiki
http://arktur.de/Wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/delete http://arktur.de/Wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/blockThe spammer (who uses a bundle of IP adresses) first creates a user with a name including the drug, and then he creates a user page with a contents like
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I may not block signing up users (does mediawiki allow blocking new users?), and therefore I have to look at least daily for new users. The drug spammer changes round about every hour the user page, and because the user has signed up the spammer can feed the user page from everywhere.
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Is there any chance a) to block such spam in a simplier way? b) to delete the user pages and the user entries in a simplier way?
Viele Gruesse! Helmut
It seems to me that it might be less work if you moderated the creation of new accounts. I recently saw an extension, though I have not used it, that requires approval by an authorized person before a new account is created.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount
If you reviewed requests at least once a day, the same frequency you are removing spam accounts now, I think the delay would not be a great inconvenience to new users. I think moderation would drive the spammers away; it would certainly stop them from creating user names with the drug name embedded.
Let us know how you resolve the problem.
Good Luck,
Jim