On 12/04/2009 04:37:00 PM, Helmut Hullen - [email protected] wrote: > Hallo, mediawiki-l, > > I have a lot of problems with drug spam on my wiki > > http://arktur.de/Wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/delete > http://arktur.de/Wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/block > > The spammer (who uses a bundle of IP adresses) first creates a user with > a name including the drug, and then he creates a user page with a > contents like > snip... > ----------------------------------------------- > > I may not block signing up users (does mediawiki allow blocking new > users?), and therefore I have to look at least daily for new users. The > drug spammer changes round about every hour the user page, and because > the user has signed up the spammer can feed the user page from > everywhere. > snip... > ------------------------------------------------- > > Is there any chance > a) to block such spam in a simplier way? > b) to delete the user pages and the user entries in a simplier way? > > Viele Gruesse! > Helmut
It seems to me that it might be less work if you moderated the creation of new accounts. I recently saw an extension, though I have not used it, that requires approval by an authorized person before a new account is created. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount If you reviewed requests at least once a day, the same frequency you are removing spam accounts now, I think the delay would not be a great inconvenience to new users. I think moderation would drive the spammers away; it would certainly stop them from creating user names with the drug name embedded. Let us know how you resolve the problem. Good Luck, Jim _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
