Well after upgrading to the newest version and using a few extensions I was able to clean up the mess but it still took a good days worth of work.
There were three "users" making edits so rolling them back created conflicts unless you did them in the right order. I resolved the conflicts by copying the revision of the page I wanted to keep, deleting the page and then pasting back in the content. One thing I really don't like about most of the solutions I used is that they still leave traces of the spam in your database. Anyway .. I don't have alot of traffic on my wiki so it's my fault for not checking it frequently enough that I could have just restored to a backup of the database. I need to see if my service provider will configure a longer period of backups. --- On Wed, 11/24/10, David Benfell <benf...@parts-unknown.org> wrote: > From: David Benfell <benf...@parts-unknown.org> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and > new pages... > To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" > <mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 5:40 PM > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Benjamin Lees > wrote: > > > As far as I know, there isn't any mass-revert > extension, but there are > > some scripts and bots floating around that can do it > client-side. > > Off-hand, I remember > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Splarka/ajaxmassrollback.js > and it > > still seems to work. > > Good to know, but there's no documentation. How does > one use it? > > > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:44 PM, David Benfell > > <benf...@parts-unknown.org> > wrote: > > > In short, MediaWiki's > > > philosophy towards security is, in the world as > we now find it or > > > have made it, naive. > > > Never attribute to philosophy that which is adequately > explained by laziness. :) > > Good point. > > -- > David Benfell <benf...@parts-unknown.org> > http://www.parts-unknown.org/ > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
