sure you can, to be safe exclude all users with a manually given group
http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Special:ListUsers
would be nice if we included a captcha extension,
the new Google recaptcha seems much better than the old recaptcha service
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Alexandru Todor <to...@inf.fu-berlin.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can delete all accounts with no activity, there is a maintenance script
> for that:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php
>
> I would like an agreement from more people before I run the script though.
>
> Cheers,
> Alexandru
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Vladimir Alexiev <
> vladimir.alex...@ontotext.com> wrote:
>
>> 500 new user accounts are created in the last 13 days (39 per day):
>>
>> http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Log/newusers&offset=&lim
>> it=500&type=newusers&user=
>> <http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Log/newusers&offset=&limit=500&type=newusers&user=>
>> Of them, only one request for editing rights (7 days ago) for an account
>> created 10 days ago:
>>
>> > From: Pēteris Paikens [mailto:peter...@gmail.com]
>> > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 12:06 PM
>> > I would need editor rights to http://mappings.dbpedia.org/ - my
>> username
>> there is peterisp.
>>
>> 5000 accounts created since Oct 2013 (29 months): that's 5 per day.
>>
>> I think that something is spamming the wiki with new user accounts.
>> I propose to delete all accounts that don't have edit access; and to add a
>> CAPTCHA on http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Special:CreateAccount
>>
>>
>>
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