[Foundation-l] Autocreated global accounts (was: [Wikitech-l]$wgCentralAuthAutoNew=true)

[Elisabeth Anderl]

I can not see any request at the channel nor at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global#Request_for_global_.28un.29lock_and_.28un.29hiding

You can also mail these usernames to the mailinglist if You prefere, some
stewards are reading this list *and* are doing locking.

Best regards, E.

2008/9/12 Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com>

> I tried but stewards then available couldn't handle UTF-8 Asian
> scripts. And it has continued from the end of July. Some jawiki*
> blocked those ranges (see checkuser-l for details) for months. I
> rather now worry about spamming libelous messages. After it was logged
> on user creation log and other logs, it cannot be removed.
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When such usernames are spotted, please report them to stewards on
> > #wikimedia-stewards, so we can lock & hide the accounts.
> >
> > 2008/9/11 Phil Nash <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> >
> >> Aphaia wrote:
> >> >> Small wikis are now spammed with unacceptable usernames which contain
> >> >> libelous messages. Is it an option to block the IP addresses behind
> >> >> those vandals not to create an account anymore?
> >>
> >> Tricky if they're on floating IPs; I've seen a few autocreations on
> en:wiki
> >> that are offensive when you run them through Google translation, and
> >> blocked
> >> them there- but I think it's in the nature of SUL that these users will
> not
> >> edit on every wiki, and to try and weed these accounts out is
> impractical.
> >> If they are going to cause trouble on a non-native wiki, they will be
> >> spotted soon enough.
> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> >> >>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Huib Laurens <sterkebak at gmail.com>
> >> >>> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> So a vandal has to make one account en can spam on all wiki's?
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> No, there's no need for them to make an account first.
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