[Mediawiki-l] Blocking users/deleting users/IP?
Erik Hermansen
erikh at caravelgames.net
Fri Jan 7 00:23:46 UTC 2005
At 04:15 PM 1/6/2005 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
>On Jan 6, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Lisa Jill wrote:
>>I had a user register on my wiki (eewiki.com) and spam it with links.
>>I went to block this user but it wants their IP - I have no idea how
>>to find that information out from the wiki.
>>
>>Can someone please instruct me on how to deal with this? Thanks =)
>
>If you enable $wgSysopUserBans in LocalSettings.php, you (and any other
>sysops) will be able to block named user accounts through the regular web
>interface.
But since these are the BAD people, they will log in again under a
different name. So you really want their IP address, right?
-Erik
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