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Wiki spam user purge

Liam Dawe Apr 9, 2013

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I just purged all users from the wiki who have made no edits.

I'm pretty sure the bulk of the database's size disk wise is because of lots of spam users <_<, phpmyadmin says we have ~2,626 users registered on the wiki...heh

Also what anti-spam plugins should I put up to prevent spam users?

I just added an edit protection to look for porn and pharmacy related words as well to slow them down on editable pages.

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fedso Apr 9, 2013

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Since the main communication here is through the forum why don't you lock down the wiki completely, restricting editing to registered users and restricting user creation to sysop?

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