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Dealing with spam: | Dealing with spam: | ||
A user with "bot" | A user with "bot" privilege can do the following: | ||
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=SPAM_USER_ID&bot=1 | http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=SPAM_USER_ID&bot=1 | ||
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This will remove the spam and get rid of annoying messages from "Recent changes" as well. | This will remove the spam and get rid of annoying messages from "Recent changes" as well. | ||
Reference for above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_revert_a_page_to_an_earlier_version#Bot_rollback | |||
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Update: | |||
Following is now installed on wiki.zmanda.com: | |||
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension | |||
It is using latest wikimedia black list. | |||
Let see how effective it is. If this breaks anything, please let us know: wiki-admin (at) zmanda.com. | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:38, 14 May 2009
Dealing with spam:
A user with "bot" privilege can do the following:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=SPAM_USER_ID&bot=1
(SPAM_USER_ID is the id of the user vandalising the site)
Then click on all rollback buttons on above page.
This will remove the spam and get rid of annoying messages from "Recent changes" as well.
Reference for above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_revert_a_page_to_an_earlier_version#Bot_rollback
Update:
Following is now installed on wiki.zmanda.com:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension
It is using latest wikimedia black list.
Let see how effective it is. If this breaks anything, please let us know: wiki-admin (at) zmanda.com.