Project:Spam

Notes on addressing spam…

If you can't do any of this because you're lacking permissions, talk to Dave.

Measures

• Enabled ConfirmEdit to use QuestyCaptcha (more), leaving the default configuration (used for account creation and adding external links, but not edits (anonymous or logged in))

Historic: Tried $wgEmailConfirmToEdit 2013-01-31, but found ineffective, so disabled (default)

Monitor

• Watch the "Recent Changes" feed
• Check the list of users and new user contributions

Clean

• Users are "deleted" by merging with user, "Anonymous" via Special:UserMerge (from extention, "User Merge and Delete")
• Pages are deleted through the page "Delete" option in the top nav dropdown (beside "View history") (available to users in the "Administrator" group)
• Recent History entries related to spam and its cleanup can be hidden from the default view by marking them as "bot" actions. This is done by visiting Special:RecentChangesCleanup (cross referencing with Special:RecentChanges)