Just got bombed by spam bots - MediaWiki-l

6 Mar 2014

Dear all,
My site ( www.indopancing.com/wiki ) just got bombed by spam bots since
last week, i already implement re-captcha few days ago on user
registration, but still not help.
Then, i try protect all access from spam bots:

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$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createaccount'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;

# Anonymous users can't create pages
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;

# Only users with accounts four days old or older can create pages
# Requires MW 1.6 or higher.
$wgGroupPermissions['*'            ]['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user'         ]['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createpage'] = true;

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Looks like it's working, no spam bots anymore..

Now, the next problem is my wiki site:
- Full of user account junk from spam bots
- Full of new page creation from spam bots

Luckily the spam bots not change/edit my wiki page.

I already backup the MySQL database with phpMyAdmin

What do you think?
1. Does using http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BlockandNuke is safe?
I just create / edit new page using admin account, there is no other
account create / edit page.
2. Actually I prefer do fresh installation of MediaWiki and copy paste 1000
contents from old one to the new one. Because i worry deleting user account
/ page from spam bots still leave junk in my site.

Do you have any sugestion for this problem?

Thank you

Best Regards,
Yudi