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.comwrote:
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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