It bothers me, too, and the wikimmittee and systems are looking into it. We've been on hiatus since term ended mid December, so action has been slow. In the meantime I will continue to fight the good fight and am happy to give gardener privileges to more editors who want to block spammers.
The silver lining is that these are orphaned pages that are easy to identify and don't interfere with any of the good content. No one who doesn't look at Recent Changes will see the spam. At least this is what I keep telling myself every time I look at Recent Changes and gasp at the sea of red.
(If any passers-by happpen to know of technical solutions that work with MediaWiki 1.15.5-2 or 1.17.0, I am all ears....)
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The silver lining is that these are orphaned pages that are easy to identify and don't interfere with any of the good content. No one who doesn't look at Recent Changes will see the spam. At least this is what I keep telling myself every time I look at Recent Changes and gasp at the sea of red.
(If any passers-by happpen to know of technical solutions that work with MediaWiki 1.15.5-2 or 1.17.0, I am all ears....)