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SPAM

The spam has become overwhelming. It's a waste of time, demoralizing, an unsightly mess on the Recent Changes page, and while we're lucky right now to have dedicated spam-whackers, this isn't always going to be the case.

What are our alternatives to simply knocking it out as it appears? Can this issue be bumped up to some tech people who can help? There's GOT to be some solution out there!

MPH

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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....)

I'm fighting along with you and with all the folks who've done a fabulous job of stemming off the horde; every time someone whacks down another set of spam, I feel proud to be associated with such a hardworking, and observant, bunch of people.

Perhaps after the hiatus, there will be some solutions to our problem. I really hope so.

Hey aethel, I checked and there's a plugin for Akismet (the spam-blocker that basically kills nearly all spam on AO3) and MediaWiki 1.12+:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AkismetKlik

It doesn't seem to prevent account creation but will prevent edits.