Poco Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I'll take a look and see, we might be spam free for once I thought that too until I looked in the check_spammers_plain.php file. Turns out they are enabled by default . You might want to try disabling them yourself, it seems to be the cause of some pages loading really slow (http://huckjones.strawberryforum.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages). I set the 4 ACH ones to 'no' to disable them and it sped some pages up considerably . 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1829807 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted June 28, 2012 Author Share Posted June 28, 2012 At exactly what part were the ones you disabled in that PHP file? I did see these lines on the file - are these the ACH stuff you mentioned? $sNoCheckDroneACH = $_GET['dach']; // Drone.abuse.ch $sNoCheckSpamACH = $_GET['sach']; // spam.abuse.ch $sNoCheckHTTPBLACH = $_GET['hach']; // HTTPBL.abuse.ch $sNoCheckZeusACH = $_GET['zach']; // ZeusTracker.abuse.ch $sNoCheckBLDE = $_GET['blde']; // Blocklist.de Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1829858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Changed lines 70-73 of check_spammers_plain.php to: $sNoCheckDroneACH = 'no';// $_GET['dach']; // Drone.abuse.ch $sNoCheckSpamACH = 'no';// $_GET['sach']; // spam.abuse.ch $sNoCheckHTTPBLACH = 'no';// $_GET['hach']; // HTTPBL.abuse.ch $sNoCheckZeusACH = 'no';// $_GET['zach']; // ZeusTracker.abuse.ch 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1829863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted June 28, 2012 Author Share Posted June 28, 2012 Thanks man, that sped things up on my end now. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1829871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted June 30, 2012 Author Share Posted June 30, 2012 Oh, and sorry for the double-post, but have you ever tried deleting the user SQL records on the wiki? I can use the Merge User extension on a wiki, but I'd like to get rid of undesired accounts en masse instead of doing it one-by-one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1830307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Not yet. You could always work on a copy of the DB to try first 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1830407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted July 7, 2012 Author Share Posted July 7, 2012 Ahh, OK. The User Merge extension seems fine for pruning junk accounts, though. I'd do that if we don't want to end up polluting the databases. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1831688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 Sorry for pestering you guys with posts, but the amount of junk on the wiki's still overwhelming for me to take care of easily. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1844238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 I've disabled creation of new pages for unregistered users. For some reason the accounts were being created, and then the user page was being edited anonymously. Not the best solution, but we rarely have new pages created by anonymous users anyways. I'll take a further look later, but this seems to have slowed things down for the moment . 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1844902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 Yeah, at least that's reassuring. BTW, do we already have an Akismet or SFS API key for snuffing out undesirables? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1845618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 No, PHP is doing pretty well along with Tornevall. We tested around 10 of them for a week and then went for the most effective ones Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1846214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted August 22, 2012 Author Share Posted August 22, 2012 I actually tried out Incapsula for snuffing rogue IPs out, since CAPTCHAs don't cut it anymore in my case. I also needed this as well here on the OSX86 wiki; after all, we're dealing with pages created en masse: http://www.mediawiki...ion:DeleteBatch Nuke's fine if a user makes a lot of pages, but we're dealing with multiple users spamming on a large scale. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277957-spam-on-the-wiki/page/2/#findComment-1846324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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