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:::'Spam' or 'vandalism' - pedantic, but whatever name-tag you wish to give it, that last episode was forcibly destructive to WikiIndex. And I don't agree at all that ''"so many pages are being protected"'' - yes, OK, I personally have protected most of the high-importance [[:Category:Templates|templates]] (but most of the lesser templates have no edit protection). But for the namespace articles, with the exception of the WikiIndex front page, you can probably count on one hand the number of namespace articles which are protected. And I also don't see how protecting pages can increase an attack of spam or vandalism! [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 08:56, 1 October 2012 (PDT) | :::'Spam' or 'vandalism' - pedantic, but whatever name-tag you wish to give it, that last episode was forcibly destructive to WikiIndex. And I don't agree at all that ''"so many pages are being protected"'' - yes, OK, I personally have protected most of the high-importance [[:Category:Templates|templates]] (but most of the lesser templates have no edit protection). But for the namespace articles, with the exception of the WikiIndex front page, you can probably count on one hand the number of namespace articles which are protected. And I also don't see how protecting pages can increase an attack of spam or vandalism! [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 08:56, 1 October 2012 (PDT) | ||
We need to have a very clear look at this. If you look correctly at the [https://WikiIndex.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500 RecentChanges] (the 'Recent changes options' days may need to be manually increased in the url to view the full history) - along with the [[Special:Log/newusers]], on 29 September 2012 at 21:48, the prolific religious vandal/spammer created FOUR user accounts within a minute! Surely, that in itself shouldn't be possible with correctly configured MediaWiki software. This user then appeared to lay dormant for four hours - presumably regularly checking the [[Special:RecentChanges]] and [[Special:WhosOnline]], and when I had finished for the evening - at 01:54 (UTC) on 30 September 2012, this evil vandal spammed '''93''' separate pages (some twice), the last one at 06:24 (UTC) - under two different usernames. If you check [[Special:Log/block]], you will see that [[User:TeraS|Tera]] blocked the first of their usernames - User:ABIDEEN0 at 02:18 (UTC), 30 September 2012 - and there was a brief respite in the spamming. Then at 06:07 (UTC), 30 September 2012 - User:ABIDEEN1 continued spamming in the same prolific manner, until they were blocked by Tera at 06:25 (UTC), 30 September 2012. Two further accounts were blocked by Tera: User:ABIDEEN01 (06:57, 30 September 2012) and User:ABIDEEN10 (06:58, 30 September 2012). As a result - a WikiIndex sysop is going to have to manually revert '''93''' separate articles/talk pages, then apply appropriate protection. Is that really how you want the [[sysop]]s here to be working ... reverting 93 edits? Tera deserves a medal for battling with that! Sysops have [[ | We need to have a very clear look at this. If you look correctly at the [https://WikiIndex.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500 RecentChanges] (the 'Recent changes options' days may need to be manually increased in the url to view the full history) - along with the [[Special:Log/newusers]], on 29 September 2012 at 21:48, the prolific religious vandal/spammer created FOUR user accounts within a minute! Surely, that in itself shouldn't be possible with correctly configured MediaWiki software. This user then appeared to lay dormant for four hours - presumably regularly checking the [[Special:RecentChanges]] and [[Special:WhosOnline]], and when I had finished for the evening - at 01:54 (UTC) on 30 September 2012, this evil vandal spammed '''93''' separate pages (some twice), the last one at 06:24 (UTC) - under two different usernames. If you check [[Special:Log/block]], you will see that [[User:TeraS|Tera]] blocked the first of their usernames - User:ABIDEEN0 at 02:18 (UTC), 30 September 2012 - and there was a brief respite in the spamming. Then at 06:07 (UTC), 30 September 2012 - User:ABIDEEN1 continued spamming in the same prolific manner, until they were blocked by Tera at 06:25 (UTC), 30 September 2012. Two further accounts were blocked by Tera: User:ABIDEEN01 (06:57, 30 September 2012) and User:ABIDEEN10 (06:58, 30 September 2012). As a result - a WikiIndex sysop is going to have to manually revert '''93''' separate articles/talk pages, then apply appropriate protection. Is that really how you want the [[sysop]]s here to be working ... reverting 93 edits? Tera deserves a medal for battling with that! Sysops have [[real lives]], and shouldn't be railroaded into all this firefighting - when the software can be configured to do the job for us automatically! Frustratedly yours! [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 08:56, 1 October 2012 (PDT) | ||
:Can we maybe a bot to do that? Also, I've created a template to view those info. | :Can we maybe a bot to do that? Also, I've created a template to view those info. | ||