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Unwanted User Registration

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79.12.255.136 (talkcontribs)

I have a problem with fake users who modify my wiki pages (usually the Main Page) for spam.

I tried blocking the user registration page, but they continue to register (i also receive returning emails for they not having an email account), access to wiki and modify it.

Since i suppose they are bots, i also tried to set a rule to wait 4 days for an user to modify anything (if the user is "younger" than 4 days, it cannot modify anything)

thank you for help!

Florianschmidtwelzow (talkcontribs)

Hi, how you have blocked the registration page? If you do this correctly, no-one should be able to regsiter, e.g. if you set the createaccount right to false for unregistered users.

79.12.255.136 (talkcontribs)

I blocked registration of new users and i'm also merging users, then i will use blockandnuke the resulting one

88.130.73.226 (talkcontribs)

> I blocked registration

Yes, and how? What you say doesn't sound like that worked...

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

It's not the first time I see new registrations on a wiki that doesn't allow new registrations because the owner left an old MediaWiki instance pointing to the same database under a different URL, and bots were registering from the old entry point.

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