Peter Nixon wrote:
On Sun 08 Jul 2007, Alan DeKok wrote:
Alan DeKok wrote:
Can we simply take the Wiki down until it's cleaned of all spam and spamming users?
After some searching on the fscking media wiki site... (Searching for "list users" doesn't get you the list users page first, but another one)
There are over 1600 users registered with the Wiki. This is intolerable. The wiki needs to come down.
I have already blocked all user creation several weeks ago. (For the second time) but there seems to have been some spam bots which create hundreds of users, wait a few weeks, and then start using a new user each day to spam. Aside from deleting all As stated earlier the spam accounts are easy to spot, they consist of 6 random alpha numeric characters or 10 random numeric characters, there are hundreds ...
I suggest you run a delete query against your authentication database, looking for usernames that match those criteria... you'll get a few proper users, but it'll stop the spam..