Well I was able to download the extensions at work.. don't know what is different between here and home yet but at least I can see I'm the only person who has this problem.
I also figured out how to edit the RemoveUnusedAccounts script to actually find the unused spambot accounts. One of the parameters it uses to determine whether or not the account was unused was giving a false positive. Now I just need to revisit my account creation security measures. Thanks for all the help :-| ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 10:24 AM Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Can't download extensions: Invalid response from Extension Distributor remote client. My wiki has been getting pummeled again with bot user accounts. For some reason RemoveUnusedAccounts isn't seeing the bot accounts even though they haven't made edits and everytime I try to download any extensions I get this error "Invalid response from Extension Distributor remote client.". ________________________________ From: Jamie Thingelstad <[email protected]> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] cleaning out a mass of unwanted users Assuming that these accounts didn't do anything other than signup and register, you could easily use the removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php If they have made edits, then the Nuke extension is the best way to go. Jamie Thingelstad [email protected] mobile: 612-810-3699 find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:48 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > For the accounts, Extension:User merge and delete[1] would probably be > the best route, And just create a dummy account for you to merge them > into. And use Extension:Nuke as Jeremy suggested to delete any pages > they created. > > > [1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
