On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 06:33 +0000, Steph Zhang wrote: > Why you need to delete those spammer accounts? I thought to ban them with > their IP address is enough unless others from the same IP address want to > contribute to your wiki. This is on a remote server that I pay for the disk space & the extra service load on the system by spammers slow it down. There are thousands of them as I was not aware of their actions while getting the system set up & I left it open.
> > Actually at that time when my wiki was under spamming, I accidentally > blocked two IP addresses, and suddenly...... No more spammers :D or at > least not that more. I don't think your wiki would have so much people > registering to manually, so that spamming must be done with a program which > came from one or several IPs. I will check on the IP address thing. Thanks > > Moreover, I tried to use ReCaptcha from Extension: > ConfirmEdit<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit>to > protect my wiki from spammers, but still failed. I was told that some > of I have confirm edit installed > the spamming accounts are registered manually and then spammed > automatically. Why not ask everyone with edits less than 3 or 5 to do > ReCaptcha? at the present time there should only be me working on the site as I'm still installing features on it. > > User name blacklist can also help on stop others to spam... My wiki is in > Chinese, and I set that none of the user with a username begins with > [a..zA..z0..9] alphanumerical charater can register to my wiki. No spammers > so far. Hmmm...a lot of the spammers are using chinese characters LOL > > After that, if you still decide to delete those spamming accounts with > their pages, you might try Extension: > UserMerge<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserMerge>or even > try to hack it to see if there's anyway to use it to delete a lot > of users once. I can use usermerge but it only removes one at a time..too tedious > Or if some users did a lot of spamming work, you might also > try Extension: Nuke <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke>. For > more extensions to help you stop others spamming, why not have a look on > how Wikipedia did? I have Nuke installed as well as BlockandNuke & both work well. They have blocked thousands of these accounts, now if I could just get rid of them. > > Spam prevention *Abuse Filter > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter> *Applies automatic > heuristics to edits Andrew Garrett, River Tarnell, Victor Vasiliev and > Marius Hoch *AntiBot installed & working > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiBot> installed & working > *Simple > framework for spambot checks and trigger payloads Tim Starling *AntiSpoof > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof> *Blocks the creation > of accounts with mixed-script, confusing and similar usernames Brion installed & working > Vibber *AntiSpoof > for CentralAuth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof> *Adds > AntiSpoof technology to CentralAuth Sam Reed *ConfirmEdit > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit> installed & working > (Version 1.2)*Provides > CAPTCHA techniques to protect against spam and password-guessing Brion > Vibber and others *SpamBlacklist > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist> installed & working > *Regex-based > anti-spam tool allowing to blacklist URLs in pages and email addresses for > registered users Tim Starling, John Du Hart and Daniel Kinzler *Title > Blacklist <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist> > (Version 1.4.2)*Allows administrators to forbid creation of pages and user > accounts per a > blacklist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titleblacklist>and > whitelist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist> Victor > Vasiliev and Fran Rogers *TorBlock > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock> Installed & working any idea what should be in this array; $wgTorIPs = array( '208.80.152.2' ); > $wgTorIPs = array( '208.80.152.2' ); > An array of IP addresses that the wiki server uses. Only exit nodes > allowed to connect to these IPs will be returned in the internal list. > Note: this is only used when the extension has to fall back to the Tor > Project's bulk list service, rather than using the newer Onionoo > protocol. > Should it be the IP address of my server?? > *Allows tor exit nodes > to be blocked from editing a wiki Andrew Garrett > > > 2013/11/25 Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]> > --------------------------snipped------------------ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
