Why you need to delete those spammer accounts? I thought to ban them with their IP address is enough unless others from the same IP address want to contribute to your wiki.
Actually at that time when my wiki was under spamming, I accidentally blocked two IP addresses, and suddenly...... No more spammers :D or at least not that more. I don't think your wiki would have so much people registering to manually, so that spamming must be done with a program which came from one or several IPs.
Moreover, I tried to use ReCaptcha from Extension: ConfirmEdithttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEditto protect my wiki from spammers, but still failed. I was told that some of the spamming accounts are registered manually and then spammed automatically. Why not ask everyone with edits less than 3 or 5 to do ReCaptcha?
User name blacklist can also help on stop others to spam... My wiki is in Chinese, and I set that none of the user with a username begins with [a..zA..z0..9] alphanumerical charater can register to my wiki. No spammers so far.
After that, if you still decide to delete those spamming accounts with their pages, you might try Extension: UserMergehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserMergeor even try to hack it to see if there's anyway to use it to delete a lot of users once. Or if some users did a lot of spamming work, you might also try Extension: Nuke https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke. For more extensions to help you stop others spamming, why not have a look on how Wikipedia did?
Spam prevention *Abuse Filter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter *Applies automatic heuristics to edits Andrew Garrett, River Tarnell, Victor Vasiliev and Marius Hoch *AntiBot https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiBot *Simple framework for spambot checks and trigger payloads Tim Starling *AntiSpoof https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof *Blocks the creation of accounts with mixed-script, confusing and similar usernames Brion Vibber *AntiSpoof for CentralAuth https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof *Adds AntiSpoof technology to CentralAuth Sam Reed *ConfirmEdit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit (Version 1.2)*Provides CAPTCHA techniques to protect against spam and password-guessing Brion Vibber and others *SpamBlacklist https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist *Regex-based anti-spam tool allowing to blacklist URLs in pages and email addresses for registered users Tim Starling, John Du Hart and Daniel Kinzler *Title Blacklist https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist (Version 1.4.2)*Allows administrators to forbid creation of pages and user accounts per a blacklisthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titleblacklistand whitelist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist Victor Vasiliev and Fran Rogers *TorBlock https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock *Allows tor exit nodes to be blocked from editing a wiki Andrew Garrett
2013/11/25 Jonathan Aquilina eagles051387@gmail.com
Hi John,
I am helping the document foundation with spam issues, and they report a drastic drop of registrations with questy which is really good. I am currently working on being able to have localized questions for the said project. I am not sure how to exactly answer your question though.
My wiki though public does not accept registrations at all. I am the only one with an account.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:16 PM, John W. Foster <jfoster81747@gmail.com
wrote:
Wow. I am getting clobbered, or was. I shut down the new account system that was open to the public and set it to be by e-mail confirmation, then disabled e-mail for a while.. I then used the deletUnusedAccounts.php a couple of times and it deleted 17860 of the spammers. But they are a persistant lot and some of them actually did manage to get pages up and running, actually hundreds or maybe thousands of them. The challenge is "How do I get rid of them?", & doing it one at a time is useless. How to keep them at bay. I would appreciate any tips regarding this. expecially actual mediawiki settings that get rid of them. I need to know if there is any way to 'delete' them using a list of the user:names seems there should be a simple way to do this, but I've had no luck so far. Thanks! John
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