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Boris Epstein

25 Jan 2012 25 Jan '12

11:18 p.m.

Hello everyone, I was careless enough to run a MediaWiki installation allowing people to sign up without a moderator's approval. Hence a few hundred of them did sign up and started to use the site to swap images. How can I delete their accounts in the most expeditious way? Thanks. Boris.

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Jeremy Baron

26 Jan 26 Jan

2:38 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] cleaning out a mass of unwanted users

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 20:18, Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I was careless enough to run a MediaWiki installation allowing people to sign up without a moderator's approval. Hence a few hundred of them did sign up and started to use the site to swap images. How can I delete their accounts in the most expeditious way?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke idk if it does anything about users existence en masse but it can deal with what they created. -Jeremy

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K. Peachey

2:48 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] cleaning out a mass of unwanted users

For the accounts, Extension:User merge and delete[1] would probably be the best route, And just create a dummy account for you to merge them into. And use Extension:Nuke as Jeremy suggested to delete any pages they created. [1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete

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Jamie Thingelstad

1:32 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] cleaning out a mass of unwanted users

Assuming that these accounts didn't do anything other than signup and register, you could easily use the removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php If they have made edits, then the Nuke extension is the best way to go. Jamie Thingelstad jamie(a)thingelstad.com mobile: 612-810-3699 find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:48 PM, K. Peachey wrote:

For the accounts, Extension:User merge and delete[1] would probably be the best route, And just create a dummy account for you to merge them into. And use Extension:Nuke as Jeremy suggested to delete any pages they created. [1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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2007＠gmaskfx.com

21 Oct 21 Oct

3:24 p.m.

New subject: Can't download extensions: Invalid response from Extension Distributor remote client.

My wiki has been getting pummeled again with bot user accounts. For some reason RemoveUnusedAccounts isn't seeing the bot accounts even though they haven't made edits and everytime I try to download any extensions I get this error "Invalid response from Extension Distributor remote client.". ________________________________ From: Jamie Thingelstad <jamie(a)thingelstad.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] cleaning out a mass of unwanted users Assuming that these accounts didn't do anything other than signup and register, you could easily use the removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php If they have made edits, then the Nuke extension is the best way to go. Jamie Thingelstad jamie(a)thingelstad.com mobile: 612-810-3699 find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:48 PM, K. Peachey wrote:

For the accounts, Extension:User merge and delete[1] would probably be the best route, And just create a dummy account for you to merge them into. And use Extension:Nuke as Jeremy suggested to delete any pages they created. [1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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2007＠gmaskfx.com

22 Oct 22 Oct

8:44 p.m.

New subject: Can't download extensions: Invalid response from Extension Distributor remote client.

Well I was able to download the extensions at work.. don't know what is different between here and home yet but at least I can see I'm the only person who has this problem. I also figured out how to edit the RemoveUnusedAccounts script to actually find the unused spambot accounts. One of the parameters it uses to determine whether or not the account was unused was giving a false positive. Now I just need to revisit my account creation security measures. Thanks for all the help :-| ________________________________ From: "2007(a)gmaskfx.com" <2007(a)gmaskfx.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 10:24 AM Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Can't download extensions: Invalid response from Extension Distributor remote client. My wiki has been getting pummeled again with bot user accounts. For some reason RemoveUnusedAccounts isn't seeing the bot accounts even though they haven't made edits and everytime I try to download any extensions I get this error "Invalid response from Extension Distributor remote client.". ________________________________ From: Jamie Thingelstad <jamie(a)thingelstad.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] cleaning out a mass of unwanted users Assuming that these accounts didn't do anything other than signup and register, you could easily use the removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php If they have made edits, then the Nuke extension is the best way to go. Jamie Thingelstad jamie(a)thingelstad.com mobile: 612-810-3699 find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:48 PM, K. Peachey wrote:

For the accounts, Extension:User merge and delete[1] would probably be the best route, And just create a dummy account for you to merge them into. And use Extension:Nuke as Jeremy suggested to delete any pages they created. [1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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2007＠gmaskfx.com
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