[Mediawiki-l] Possible to rollback entire site?

[Dr JFBurté]

Hi Keith, I'm using the following tips with excellent results:
Capcha + Userrights ($wgGroupPermissions) like confirm email +
some defense ($wgSpamRegex) against some kind of text & css basically used
by spammers

@+ de jfb "0.02$"

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From: "pwnedd" <keith.hughitt at gmail.com>
To: <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 3:12 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Possible to rollback entire site?


>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to MediaWiki, and was wondering if anyone might be able to help
> figure out the best way to deal with a problem.
>
> I recently discovered that the Wiki I'm hosting has been spammed a large
> amount over the last month. I would like to remove all of the spam, and
> require email authentication, or even better would be admin permission for
> a
> user to edit pages hence forth. First though I need to figure out how to
> remove the existing spam.
>
> Since the wiki is very low volume, there have been almost no changes over
> the past month, other than spam. The simplest method it would seem then
> would be to do a site roll-back for one month.
>
> Is this possible?
>
>
> If not, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get rid of spam
> without having to delete each page and block each user manually?
>
> Finally, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights suggested a
> method
> to require all users to confirm their email. Is there any way to go one
> step
> further and require an admin approve the email?
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been working through the
> MediaWiki docs, but they are pretty extensive, and so far I haven't had
> any
> luck.
>
>
> Thanks!
> Keith
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