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Hide fake user accounts?
Although abuse filter works fine, user accounts are still added to the wiki by spambots. It bugs me to see the wiki user list including fake names. On shared hosting I would merge and delete spambot created users. Extension UserMerge is declined on Miraheze for incompatibility with CentralAuth. Apparently CentralAuth does have lock and hide. Please can wikis have (obviously spambot created) fake users hidden? Rob Kam (talk) 10:30, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Block the user. Then use IRC and send a list for the users to be locked to the stewards since account actions are global. Thanks Sau226 (talk) 07:40, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Not to be locked, they only ever use the account once anyway but to be hidden so that in the User list fake spambot users don't outnumber the real contributing users. --Rob Kam (talk) 11:02, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Here's a list from SDIY wiki of the spambot created fake one-time user IDs. These have all triggered the abuse filter. Please can they be removed from the list of users? --Rob Kam (talk) 12:47, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * NYCJanina08
 * IanGibbs82
 * RobbyDevine45
 * RheaDoan845965
 * BethanyStang6
 * ColemanCaldwell
 * DanaWesley23231
 * FannieChinnery
 * BrendaJamieson
 * JefferyMill871
 * CaseyCorones7
 * JedCarney07
 * BettinaHirsch27
 * ConsueloVansickl
 * DeandreLammon‎
 * YISJordan0028696‎
 * AnitraRains669
 * I think the use of hideuser may do unless they are used for cross wiki spam. Very useful for blocks that can not be removed except by oversighters --Sau226 (talk) 09:29, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Asked at T2583. --Rob Kam (talk) 11:37, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * and declined. --Rob Kam (talk) 15:18, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Up to steward discretion, but imo this doesn’t warrant a hideuser. OS states we generally do not make an exception and I don’t think this deserves an exception. &mdash; revi  18:38, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I've locked all accounts listed (at one point or another), but I don't think hiding the accounts is warranted. -- Void  Whispers 01:50, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * On Wikia Uncyclopedia, the problem was that new accounts "aged" in 72 hours and became able to upload images and move pages (until the latter was shut down to all but ; a shell game of page-moves took hours to sort out and undo).  So there may be a strategy to plant one-shot accounts and abuse them later.  Nevertheless, this behavior is common over wikis from Wikia to Wikifur, either with 0 edits, or 1 edit being an "introduction" with gaping inconsistencies.  Rob, if you are "bugged" by fake users in the list, your reaction is the problem to overcome; showing an open interface, we will not be able to do anything about it, and disinfecting after them is a waste of time.   03:52 9-Jan-2018
 * Rob just let this drop. These users are all locked and hey a wiki is meant to be a community project. On miraheze, any vandal can create an account and show up in your user list before spamming. The most you can probably do is turn on and lock some features for a week or so if there is a big influx of spam users. If you're not online when the spam usually happens I suggest you go and give someone else access to protect the site on your behalf. I used to be a steward on a wiki farm but for various reasons left. During my tenure we had a lot of spam users but we never had any need to oversight them (we just locked them and deleted their spam). Many other wiki farms like wikipedia don't use oversight unless absolutely necessary since any abuse could have wide lasting effects --Sau226 (talk) 05:51, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay I accept there is nothing going to remedy this. --Rob Kam (talk) 12:43, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Rename username
Hi, I want my UnCrisitano username to be changed to UnCristiano. This because I registered it with an error. UnCrisitano (talk) 15:35, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Void  Whispers 17:49, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks Void . UnCristiano (talk) 17:57, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello Void  Is it possible to change my name in Phabricator?. This is because it appears with the wrong name: UnCrisitano when it should be UnCristiano like here. --UnCristiano (talk) 17:52, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Since you only had 3 mentions on Phabricator and you were email-confirmed, I've renamed your Phabricator account. You will have to reset your password via email to login. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 18:21, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

I want to adopt "sosunwundo.miraheze.org"
I think that wiki is worth exploiting. That's why I want to transfer the wiki. Is it possible? --Leaveto (talk) 07:26, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Requests for adoption is the proper place. Wiki is kind of 'wiki will be closed if you do nothing', so it's yet edit-able. If you edit there, nothing will happen. To get admin/crat access, please visit Requests for adoption after enough activity. Thanks. &mdash; revi  07:33, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Request: Addition to CVT
I, Zppix would like to become CVT for many reasons:


 * I run an adminbot that works closely with stewards and CVT, so it would make sense to apart of the team it works woth IMO
 * I love anti-vandal work, I attempt to do alot here, and I hold rollbacker and many advanced perms on enwiki, as I am also a crat, and sysop on publictestwiki
 * My timezone, currently there seems to be a gap between timezones, considering im UTC-6 I would help fill up any empty gaps in times.
 * With CVT rights I could help out with false positives with my bot, so that way theres no need for a game of telephone.

Thanks for considering me! Zppix (talk) 17:52, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Again maybe if you were more active around the farm (contributions from your account, helping to report spam to CVT/stewards. Great job! MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 17:55, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * To base experience after edit count is counter productive IMO, espesically as I run 2 bots for miraheze, and do help out, just because I dont contribute in edits, I am actually really active, infact recently I created a block request system on proxybot for stewards and CVT to use :) Zppix (talk) 17:59, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Why not? &mdash;  revi  14:24, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Questions

 * 1) What will you do if granted these rights? How will you monitor vandalism and help prevent it? Reception123  (talk) ('C' ) 19:40, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I will assist in answering emails sent to cvt due to my bot, and of course, handle requests that require CVT intervention, ie crosswiki abuse. I will monitor vandalism by responding to requests for assistance, and generally patrolling around vandal-prone wikis. I can prevent it by ensuring my bot is up-to-date and low false positives, and watching edit patterns to see if theres possibly more vandalism or abuse then what is found on a first glance. Zppix (talk) 19:43, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

CVT for MacFan4000
I would like to request CVT. I would love to help fight spam/vandalism. I am active both on-wiki and on IRC. If no-one notices something that doesn’t belong on wiki here, I uasally report it in #miraheze-CVT. I am fimilliar with the permissions, as I have them on my test wiki, and I have Sysop/Bureaucrat rights on both miraheze testwikis. I have dealt before with some of the spammers that miraheze has dealt with. Thank you for your consideration. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 18:10, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Votes (MacFan4000)

 * 1)  MacFan4000 has come a long way since last May. They have more than 1000 edits globally, they are a meta translation admin and wiki creator, and they are very active on IRC. I fully support this as I don't think we can really have enough people fighting spam (we're also looking into spam on our other platforms). -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 13:55, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 2)  I used to be a moderator on a gaming server, so I know how bad spam can get sometimes. While I haven't seen too much spam on Miraheze, having more people fight it will make it even less common! CoolieCoolster (talk) 14:09, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 3) Why not?  &mdash;  revi  14:24, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 4)  This request has more logic than the previous ones. Luck! —Alvaro Molina (✉ -  ✔ ) 14:44, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 5)  let's see what this user can do with these rights, all my interactions with them have been, trustworthy. Zppix (talk) 19:44, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Questions

 * 1) What will you do if granted these rights? How will you monitor vandalism and help prevent it? Reception123  (talk) ('C' ) 19:40, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I will Moniter recent changes, respond to incoming emails, and periodically check the abuse log, when needed. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 21:04, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Ha-Mim user does not have admin rights to hamim.miraheze.org
When I visit the wiki, I receive "access error" in Turkish. See below. In a nutshell it says Ha-Mim does not belong to the admin group. Thanks!

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