There are several extensions that can help, (See Nuke for one) or the abuse filter, along with checkuser
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Winters Wiki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a wiki at winterswiki.org. It was discovered by vandals who created > 9500 new users and 10,000+ pages in a couple of days. > > I disabled access and wiped all the users except known ones off the > database, but when I enabled the wiki again new users started being created > every minute or so. I disabled anon account creation, but I still have > 10,000+ pages of spam intersperced with my real pages. > > What is the best way to get rid of the pages I don't want in a bulk > fashion? > > What is the best way to avoid this and other problems.. > > Thanks > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > 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
