On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 06:33 +0000, Steph Zhang wrote:
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.
This is on a remote server that I pay for the disk space & the extra service load on the system by spammers slow it down. There are thousands of them as I was not aware of their actions while getting the system set up & I left it open.
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.
I will check on the IP address thing. Thanks
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
I have confirm edit installed
the spamming accounts are registered manually and then spammed automatically. Why not ask everyone with edits less than 3 or 5 to do ReCaptcha?
at the present time there should only be me working on the site as I'm still installing features on it.
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.
Hmmm...a lot of the spammers are using chinese characters LOL
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.
I can use usermerge but it only removes one at a time..too tedious
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?
I have Nuke installed as well as BlockandNuke & both work well. They have blocked thousands of these accounts, now if I could just get rid of them.
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
installed & working
installed & working
*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
installed & working
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
installed & working
(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
installed & working
*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
Installed & working
any idea what should be in this array; $wgTorIPs = array( '208.80.152.2' );
$wgTorIPs = array( '208.80.152.2' ); An array of IP addresses that the wiki server uses. Only exit nodes allowed to connect to these IPs will be returned in the internal list. Note: this is only used when the extension has to fall back to the Tor Project's bulk list service, rather than using the newer Onionoo protocol.
Should it be the IP address of my server??
*Allows tor exit nodes to be blocked from editing a wiki Andrew Garrett
2013/11/25 Jonathan Aquilina eagles051387@gmail.com
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