Ah, that's how it's done. Cheers! Edward
On 9 August 2013 12:16, Troels Emtekær Linnet <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com) This is the relax-devel mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, visit the list information page at https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/relax-devel
