Why you need to delete those spammer accounts? I thought to ban them with
their IP address is enough unless others from the same IP address want to
contribute to your wiki.
Actually at that time when my wiki was under spamming, I accidentally
blocked two IP addresses, and suddenly...... No more spammers :D or at
least not that more. I don't think your wiki would have so much people
registering to manually, so that spamming must be done with a program which
came from one or several IPs.
Moreover, I tried to use ReCaptcha from Extension:
ConfirmEdit<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit>to
protect my wiki from spammers, but still failed. I was told that some
of
the spamming accounts are registered manually and then spammed
automatically. Why not ask everyone with edits less than 3 or 5 to do
ReCaptcha?
User name blacklist can also help on stop others to spam... My wiki is in
Chinese, and I set that none of the user with a username begins with
[a..zA..z0..9] alphanumerical charater can register to my wiki. No spammers
so far.
After that, if you still decide to delete those spamming accounts with
their pages, you might try Extension:
UserMerge<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserMerge>or even
try to hack it to see if there's anyway to use it to delete a lot
of users once. Or if some users did a lot of spamming work, you might also
try Extension: Nuke <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke>. For
more extensions to help you stop others spamming, why not have a look on
how Wikipedia did?
Spam prevention *Abuse Filter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter> *Applies automatic
heuristics to edits Andrew Garrett, River Tarnell, Victor Vasiliev and
Marius Hoch *AntiBot
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiBot> *Simple
framework for spambot checks and trigger payloads Tim Starling *AntiSpoof
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof> *Blocks the creation
of accounts with mixed-script, confusing and similar usernames Brion
Vibber *AntiSpoof
for CentralAuth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof> *Adds
AntiSpoof technology to CentralAuth Sam Reed *ConfirmEdit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit> (Version 1.2)*Provides
CAPTCHA techniques to protect against spam and password-guessing Brion
Vibber and others *SpamBlacklist
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist> *Regex-based
anti-spam tool allowing to blacklist URLs in pages and email addresses for
registered users Tim Starling, John Du Hart and Daniel Kinzler *Title
Blacklist <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist>
(Version 1.4.2)*Allows administrators to forbid creation of pages and user
accounts per a
blacklist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titleblacklist>and
whitelist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist> Victor
Vasiliev and Fran Rogers *TorBlock
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock> *Allows tor exit nodes
to be blocked from editing a wiki Andrew Garrett
2013/11/25 Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387(a)gmail.com>
Hi John,
I am helping the document foundation with spam issues, and they report a
drastic drop of registrations with questy which is really good. I am
currently working on being able to have localized questions for the said
project. I am not sure how to exactly answer your question though.
My wiki though public does not accept registrations at all. I am the only
one with an account.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:16 PM, John W. Foster <jfoster81747(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Wow. I am getting clobbered, or was. I shut down
the new account system
that was open to the public and set it to be by e-mail confirmation,
then disabled e-mail for a while.. I then used the
deletUnusedAccounts.php a couple of times and it deleted 17860 of the
spammers. But they are a persistant lot and some of them actually did
manage to get pages up and running, actually hundreds or maybe thousands
of them. The challenge is "How do I get rid of them?", & doing it one at
a time is useless. How to keep them at bay. I would appreciate any tips
regarding this. expecially actual mediawiki settings that get rid of
them. I need to know if there is any way to 'delete' them using a list
of the user:names
seems there should be a simple way to do this, but I've had no luck so
far.
Thanks!
John
_______________________________________________
MediaWiki-l mailing list
MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
--
Jonathan Aquilina
_______________________________________________
MediaWiki-l mailing list
MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l