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

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:

There are several extensions that can help, (See Nuke for one) or the abuse filter, along with checkuser