These bots or paid spammers have been promoting a Vietnamese holiday website and a bunch of copy-paste news articles

All have been blocked and their articles deleted.

  • Camarada ForteOPMA
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    4 years ago

    How much control do you have over the wiki and its software? Are you hosting it yourself?

    I have full control of the wiki and its software. I don’t have control over the machine hosting it, as I could only afford a shared plan (for now).

    The solution I’ve found for now was to restrict all editing from anonymous and new users. And to allow comrades to edit and create articles, I created a new user group allowing users to do exactly that.

    The only downside is that it’s done manually, and restricting editing will probably affect the editing frequency of ProleWiki for a while. Oh, well.

    EDIT: It’s done. A bunch of spammer accounts created, none was able to create a single article. A battle won.