I've got through and cleaned out most of the users. All users with 0 or 1 pages 
edits were deleted along with users who only had a User: page since that is 
where spammers tended to put their links.

If you're wiki account was deleted, feel free to create a new one.

Thanks,
Ali

On Jun 14, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Whatever works for you is fine with me... in the very worst case, even if
> we just blow away all the accounts and require everyone who had a valid
> wiki account to start over, that's probably not totally unreasonable.  Not
> optimal, but not the end of the world.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> It seems as though the way we required users to have confirmed email
>> addresses before editing wasn't working. So anyone who created an
>> account, even if they didn't confirm the email could create or edit a
>> page. I've managed to fix this, but there is still the question of
>> removing the spam. I'm considering trying something like removing any
>> user whos email isn't also subscribed to a gem5 mailing list. Any
>> thoughts?
>> 
>> Ali
>> 
>> On 14.06.2013 18:05, Ali Saidi wrote:
>> 
>>> On
>> 14.06.2013 17:56, Nilay Vaish wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I just noticed that in
>>> 
>>> 
>> past two days, at least 1000 changes were made to
>>> 
>>>> the wiki. Each
>> of
>>> 
>>> these change was either a user account creation or a
>>> In past,
>> I
>>> 
>>> have observed user accounts were being created on the wiki
>> withabsurd nam> ys very lo
>>> ockquote type="cite"
>> style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px;
>> width:100%">I
>>> 
>>> think we need to do something. Does mediawiki has
>> some security features
>> 
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