[Foundation-l] Autocreated global accounts (was: [Wikitech-l]$wgCentralAuthAutoNew=true)

[Aphaia]

I tried but stewards then available couldn't handle UTF-8 Asian
scripts. And it has continued from the end of July. Some jawiki*
blocked those ranges (see checkuser-l for details) for months. I
rather now worry about spamming libelous messages. After it was logged
on user creation log and other logs, it cannot be removed.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby at gmail.com> wrote:
> When such usernames are spotted, please report them to stewards on
> #wikimedia-stewards, so we can lock & hide the accounts.
>
> 2008/9/11 Phil Nash <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk>
>
>> Aphaia wrote:
>> >> Small wikis are now spammed with unacceptable usernames which contain
>> >> libelous messages. Is it an option to block the IP addresses behind
>> >> those vandals not to create an account anymore?
>>
>> Tricky if they're on floating IPs; I've seen a few autocreations on en:wiki
>> that are offensive when you run them through Google translation, and
>> blocked
>> them there- but I think it's in the nature of SUL that these users will not
>> edit on every wiki, and to try and weed these accounts out is impractical.
>> If they are going to cause trouble on a non-native wiki, they will be
>> spotted soon enough.
>>
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>> >>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Huib Laurens <sterkebak at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> So a vandal has to make one account en can spam on all wiki's?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> No, there's no need for them to make an account first.
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