Dear wiki maintainers (Taco at others), I have found in the user creation log: 05:40, 7 June 2024 User account FelicaEnyeart34 was created 22:59, 26 May 2024 User account NonaAlber414387 was created 04:33, 26 May 2024 User account Tony83264596 was created 15:17, 24 May 2024 User account WallyGarth was created I‘m afraid these four users may be only spamming accounts. I don’t know whether it is worth discussing this issue, but I have two questions: Is there any way in which regular wiki contributions may help in removing the accounts or at least all the pages generated with these accounts? Is there any way to fix the display of user contributions (such as mine, https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:Contributions/Ousia)? I have just discovered that the problem is to search for contributions in all namespaces (set by default), which triggers the error message: Namespaces with negative values are not supported. If main namespace is selected, everything works fine. I wonder whether it would be possible to set the main namespace as default to search for user contributions. Many thanks for your help, Pablo
Hi Pablo (and others), On Wed, 2024-06-12 at 18:42 +0200, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
Is there any way in which regular wiki contributions may help in removing the accounts or at least all the pages generated with these accounts?
I also don't have deletion privileges, but I went through the recent pages and deleted the spammy content. These edits should all show up in "Recent Changes", so _hopefully_ this makes it easier for the Wiki admins to delete. (If removing the spam makes it harder for the admins to delete it, please let me know and I won't do it again). Thanks, -- Max
On 6/13/24 04:17, Max Chernoff wrote:
Hi Pablo (and others),
On Wed, 2024-06-12 at 18:42 +0200, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
Is there any way in which regular wiki contributions may help in removing the accounts or at least all the pages generated with these accounts?
I also don't have deletion privileges, but I went through the recent pages and deleted the spammy content.
After sending my message, I saw that the Gardener group seems to have permissions to delete pages (not sure about user pages). I wonder whether this may constitute a formal request (for me and Max [always when he agrees]) to be considered as candidates for Gardeners. I know that this is not a privilege, but I would like to be able to remove spam from the wiki. Many thanks for your help, Pablo
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