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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
