BlockandNuke looks pretty good, except that I don't like the idea of
deleting stuff completely from the database. Therefore, I might create a
fork of that or of
BlockBatch<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BlockBatch>to
revert rather than nuke changes. I've started a page to brainstorm
antivandalism development ideas:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Countervandalism_development
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:11 PM, George Barnick <george.barnick(a)brickcraft.me
wrote:
BlockAndNuke will likely be very useful to you. I
don't think a fresh
MediaWiki installation would be ideal, since it would allow for spambots to
rejoin and spam using the same usernames and IP addresses as you have
already blocked. It would just create more work.
One solution I can tell you from experience is very useful when dealing
with spambots is AbuseFilter. I work as an administrator on a couple
projects on a rather large wiki farm (
http://www.brickimedia.org ) and
after implementing abusefilters to disallow or warn users when they trip a
filter, I haven't seen an actual spambot account in several months. If you
would like to use some of the abusefilters I've made (or adapted), I'd be
perfectly willing to send you two of the most useful ones I have.
Kind Regards,
George Barnick
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