On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 06:33 +0000, Steph Zhang wrote:
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.
This is on a remote server that I pay for the disk space
& the extra
service load on the system by spammers slow it down. There are thousands
of them as I was not aware of their actions while getting the system set
up & I left it open.
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.
I will check on the IP address thing. Thanks
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
I have confirm edit installed
the spamming accounts are registered manually and then
spammed
automatically. Why not ask everyone with edits less than 3 or 5 to do
ReCaptcha?
at the present time there should only be me working on the site as
I'm
still installing features on it.
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.
Hmmm...a lot of the spammers are using chinese characters LOL
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.
I can use usermerge but it only removes one at a time..too tedious
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?
I have Nuke installed as well as BlockandNuke & both work
well. They
have blocked thousands of these accounts, now if I could just get rid of
them.
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
installed & working
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiBot>
installed & working
*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
installed
& working
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>
installed &
working
(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>
installed &
working
*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>
Installed & working
any idea what should be in this array;
$wgTorIPs = array( '208.80.152.2' );
$wgTorIPs = array( '208.80.152.2' );
An array of IP addresses that the wiki server uses. Only exit nodes
allowed to connect to these IPs will be returned in the internal list.
Note: this is only used when the extension has to fall back to the Tor
Project's bulk list service, rather than using the newer Onionoo
protocol.
Should it be the IP address of my server??
*Allows tor exit nodes
to be blocked from editing a wiki Andrew Garrett
2013/11/25 Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387(a)gmail.com>
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