Newbie with Vandal Problem - MediaWiki-l

John

23 Jun 23 Jun

3:01 p.m.

There are several extensions that can help, (See Nuke for one) or the abuse filter, along with checkuser On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Winters Wiki <winterswikiorg(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi, I have a wiki at winterswiki.org. It was discovered by vandals who created 9500 new users and 10,000+ pages in a couple of days. I disabled access and wiped all the users except known ones off the database, but when I enabled the wiki again new users started being created every minute or so. I disabled anon account creation, but I still have 10,000+ pages of spam intersperced with my real pages. What is the best way to get rid of the pages I don't want in a bulk fashion? What is the best way to avoid this and other problems.. Thanks Dave _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Bri

23 Jun 23 Jun

5:30 p.m.

I had this problem also. I installed the extention "ConfirmEdit", and also set up the email confirmed permission group (see configuration in the article below). I still get spam account signups (but a lot less of them), but they cannot edit pages. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit -Bri On 2014-06-23 17:28, Winters Wiki wrote:

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Hi, I have a wiki at winterswiki.org. It was discovered by vandals who created 9500 new users and 10,000+ pages in a couple of days. I disabled access and wiped all the users except known ones off the database, but when I enabled the wiki again new users started being created every minute or so. I disabled anon account creation, but I still have 10,000+ pages of spam intersperced with my real pages. What is the best way to get rid of the pages I don't want in a bulk fashion? What is the best way to avoid this and other problems.. Thanks Dave _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Bill Traynor

6:02 p.m.

Just to add to the list of solutions, we use ConfirmEdit, QuestyCaptcha setup with dynamic questions as described on thinglestads blog: http://thingelstad.com/stopping-mediawiki-spam-with-dynamic-questy-captchas… On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Bri <dev(a)rlyehable.com> wrote:

I had this problem also. I installed the extention "ConfirmEdit", and also set up the email confirmed permission group (see configuration in the article below). I still get spam account signups (but a lot less of them), but they cannot edit pages. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit -Bri On 2014-06-23 17:28, Winters Wiki wrote:

Hi, I have a wiki at winterswiki.org. It was discovered by vandals who created 9500 new users and 10,000+ pages in a couple of days. I disabled access and wiped all the users except known ones off the database, but when I enabled the wiki again new users started being created every minute or so. I disabled anon account creation, but I still have 10,000+ pages of spam intersperced with my real pages. What is the best way to get rid of the pages I don't want in a bulk fashion? What is the best way to avoid this and other problems.. Thanks Dave

We've had almost no vandalism after requiring new accounts to authenticate with OpenID, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID --Fred _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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