Create a list of all the spam pages from Special:AllPages then load that into extension
delete batch.
Set the wiki so that only registered users can edit. Extension Confirm Edit won't stop
spammers adding accounts and they can get around some Captchas. Instead use extension
Confirm Account to keep spammers from registering accounts - then you won't need
Confirm Edit nor possibly Abuse Filter. However Confirm Account asks too for much at
registering. Try to set it so that it only has one box asking for some info that will help
identify the request as legitimate.
Rob
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From: juan santos <juansre(a)gmail.com>
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Friday, 8 November 2013, 12:22
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Serious Spam Problem
Hi!!
I'm having a HUGE problem with the spamming in my wiki (
http://www.realzaragozapedia.es). I've installed the Confirm Edit and set
up the User Registration to "false"...but the wiki don't have much sense
with these parameters.
Also I'm using the "Merge and Delete" extension, wich is a tedious an very
slow way to delete all of the 7000 spam accounts registered in my wiki. Is
there any faster way to do that? (I mean, preserving the database integrity
).
Thanks for your help and sorry for my english.
Juan
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