BlockandNuke looks pretty good, except that I don't like the idea of deleting stuff completely from the database. Therefore, I might create a fork of that or of BlockBatch<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BlockBatch>to revert rather than nuke changes. I've started a page to brainstorm antivandalism development ideas: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Countervandalism_development
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:11 PM, George Barnick <george.barn...@brickcraft.me > wrote: > BlockAndNuke will likely be very useful to you. I don't think a fresh > MediaWiki installation would be ideal, since it would allow for spambots to > rejoin and spam using the same usernames and IP addresses as you have > already blocked. It would just create more work. > > One solution I can tell you from experience is very useful when dealing > with spambots is AbuseFilter. I work as an administrator on a couple > projects on a rather large wiki farm ( http://www.brickimedia.org ) and > after implementing abusefilters to disallow or warn users when they trip a > filter, I haven't seen an actual spambot account in several months. If you > would like to use some of the abusefilters I've made (or adapted), I'd be > perfectly willing to send you two of the most useful ones I have. > > Kind Regards, > George Barnick > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- Nathan Larson <https://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Leucosticte> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
