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Thanks for the tip. Can you explain the categories/pages you set up and how to use them?
Thanks for the tip. Can you explain the categories/pages you set up and how to use them?
* Well basically, I can now simply add the <nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> template to the garbage articles in future. The template has a sneaky category inclusion in it, so that the sysop (''you!'') can simply go to [[: Category:Pages for deletion]] and see all the spam and junk neatly piled up. Then - '''''click''''' - '''''click''''' - '''''click''''' - delete it all in a few seconds. Super-easy ^_^ - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:23, 26 August 2011 (EDT) (aka 'Alison')
Is there a way to quickly delete all the marked pages and then clean up the Pages for deletion page? i.e. a bot plug-in or shortcuts? Thanks. -hoalvin
* No - you have to manually delete them all, which is a pain. When they're gone, the category will automatically depopulate, so you don't need to do anything with them. What you ''really'' need is a better CAPTCHA. The one you have - the simple math one - is easily defeated by spambots. And all these accounts ''are'' bots :/ See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA here] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA here] for something a bit better - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:40, 26 August 2011 (EDT)
* Check out [http://wiki.bltnvw.com/index.php/Special:Recentchanges this example of a really badly-infested wiki]. I've no access to the shell, though, so am stuck doing the daily-delete thing. In fact I followed a spam link to ''your'' wiki from there - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:41, 26 August 2011 (EDT)
Thanks again for the help. We were running ReCAPTCHA before but bots were still able to create accounts and were editing legitimate content on pre-existing pages. With the math CAPTCHA they only seem to create new pages. -hoalvin
* Ah!! You probably need [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_page_creation these] options set :) - [[User:Ihatespam|Ihatespam]] 02:54, 26 August 2011 (EDT)
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