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Volleyballheinz (talkcontribs)

My site got hacked, and got many spam page on it (page that are advertising, and other weird stuff).

We have now managed to get rid of the spammer account and block them all, but all pages are still there. There is no link to them in the main page, but they still could get access with direct link (e.g. in a spam mail campaign).

How do I get rid of those 2000+ orphan pages. Nuke and other extension were only install after the attack happen.

There is unfortunately no pattern in the content of the spam page (from lip gloss, to DVD).

They were all created by several different users as well.

How can I delete many (2000+) pages effectively? I managed to merge all spam users together. The best scenario would be to delete all pages by those merged users. Remember Nuke was only installed after the attack.

Mediawiki 1.26.3

87.123.35.37 (talkcontribs)
Carchaias (talkcontribs)

I had very good experiance with the simple captcha function. A hand full of stupid questions about the main theme of the wiki holds back spam for years now. Iḿ very lucky about that.

like : How many wheels has a Threewheeler? or the like.

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