Thread:Project:Support desk/Gigabytes of data taken up by MySQL database for mediawiki installation/reply (10)

I want to thank you both very much for your help; everything has worked well. I apologize for any frustration caused due to my ignorance, all of this was new to me and now I should have many fewer problems and be able to solve them on my own quick enough. It does appear that all of the spam bots had filled up their user pages with gigabytes and gigabytes of junk (thankfully not visible to the public), and that at least is preventable by disallowing user registration entirely, if someone is getting targeted too much.

So huzzah, problem figured out, and resolved.