Hi Edward. You find all "special pages" in the left menu, under toolbox: http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/Special:SpecialPages
Depending on your login-credentials, you will see different special page options. You would probably use: User list - http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/Special:ListUsers Merge and delete users - http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/Special:UserMerge Old user (merge from): The user name of the spammer New user (merge to): Spam bot Best Troels Emtekær Linnet 2013/8/9 Edward d'Auvergne <[email protected]> > Hi, > > No problems, I'll keep watching and see what happens. I've had quite > some experience cleaning up after spam bots, as they attacked the > relax news system at https://gna.org/news/?group=relax. As for the > CAPTCHA for setting up a new account, I checked yesterday and there > was none. Today it's working though. We just have to keep watching > and see what happens. Maybe a better CAPTCHA is required if they can > still come through. One question though, how do I use the merge and > delete extension? > > Cheers, > > Edward > > > > > On 9 August 2013 11:18, Troels Emtekær Linnet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Edward. > > > > Damn does bots. > > Thanks for taking care! > > > > 1) > > I have increased the security, so you need to have link-click confirmed > your > > email, > > before you can edit. > > > > 2) > > I have also made it necessary to do CAPTCHA input, before each > submission of > > a page edit. > > > > 3) > > I installed a Merge and delete users extension for admins. > > I have created a user: Spam bot > > And merged and deleted all dubious users into that user user. > > (Note, total deletion on wiki's is "normally" not possible). > > > > I hope this helps a little. > > > > I am stunned, that the bots can be created at all. ? > > You need to pass CAPTCHA, to be able to create a user. ? > > > > > > > > > > Troels Emtekær Linnet > > > > > > 2013/8/9 Edward d'Auvergne <[email protected]> > >> > >> Hi Troels, > >> > >> I really think we need to set up a CAPTCHA > >> (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) for the user creation on the > >> relax wiki (http://wiki.nmr-relax.com). Maybe for new page creation > >> as well. The wiki has been infested with bots and I have been > >> deleting these accounts and all the pages they created: > >> > >> > >> > http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&offset=&limit=500 > >> > >> > http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&offset=&limit=500&type=delete&user= > >> > >> There's no rush as it's still relatively each to whack these bots. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Edward > > > > >
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