The amount of spam our wiki.qemu.org collects, is increasing every day. It was easy several months ago to manually delete these pages once a week to keep wiki spam-free, now they sometimes manage to re-create a page while I delete it!
No, it is not counted in 1000s per day - not yet anyway. But 10..20 new users with the same amount of new spam pages per day become a norm. To see how it looks like, see the RecentChanges: http://wiki.qemu.org/Special:RecentChanges There, each new user adds one spam page. And see this link http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0 to see my actions too. What complicates things alot for me is the fact that now, after wiki changes, *every* "Delete page" operation takes 30..60 seconds to complete, and during all this time the wiki is not doing anything. This should be fixed too, I think. Now, I think the best course is to restrict new user creation, require moderation for new users. The best will be to ask them to write some words in the confirmation email as of why they want the account, -- so that the moderator will be able to tell somewhat if this is for real or not; but I've no idea if such a feature exists in mediawiki. I can play moderational role, -- this at least should be significantly easier than my current delete page approach. And if not, I'd love to see Nuke extension enabled -- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke -- which should help with page deletion. Any other suggestions are ofcourse welcome. Thanks, /mjt
