There is a proposal to enable the Nuke extension for most wikis at Metapub: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metapub#Enable_mw:Extension:Nuke_on_WMF_wikis _by_default
The extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke) allows sysops to mass-delete recent page creations by a single user. So for spambots and page creation vandals, this speeds up deleting their pages. It won't delete old pages, and it won't delete an arbitrary list of pages - only recent ones, and only pages by a single user. While the extension is powerful, it doesn't give admins any abilities they don't already have.
Part of the proposal is that some wikis (probably large ones) will want to decide for themselves - if your home wiki falls into that category, then perhaps it should be added to the list of wikis which will not be affected. Please consider that this will be useful for the small wikis where stewards may need to mass-delete pages by a spambot/vandal - the intent is not to force wikis with communities to have this extension. Such communities should not be included in the proposal (but I don't know which ones those are, so I need your help to list them).
Thanks,
Mike
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:41 PM, mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm wrote:
The extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke) allows sysops to mass-delete recent page creations by a single user. So for spambots and page creation vandals, this speeds up deleting their pages. It won't delete old pages, and it won't delete an arbitrary list of pages - only recent ones, and only pages by a single user. While the extension is powerful, it doesn't give admins any abilities they don't already have.
Somebody should fix Nuke to properly nuke images. I applied some fix some time ago, but it didn't totally work.
Bryan
Would it be reasonable to target pagemove vandals with this, as well? Revert all top-revision moves, with an option to delete resulting redirects?
Or is that getting too far beyond the current function?
-Luna
Probably. But I had requested even more than that already :D
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13601
Mike
-----Original Message----- From: Luna [mailto:lunasantin@gmail.com] Sent: September 19, 2008 5:12 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Special:Nuke
Would it be reasonable to target pagemove vandals with this, as well? Revert all top-revision moves, with an option to delete resulting redirects?
Or is that getting too far beyond the current function?
-Luna
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