Stewards' noticeboard/Archive 11

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Request to delete glaucuswiki

 * Per T5149 on behalf of the user requesting the deletion of glaucuswiki by a steward. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 07:03, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

MatomoAnalytics
HI, MatomoAnalytics has not been functioning for the past 3 - 4 days. حساب (talk) 14:47, 25 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, we are sorry that it has not be working correctly. We have a cron that runs everyday but it appears to keep OOM'g. So not much we can do at this moment in time. We need to increase the ram on our matomo host. Again apologies that this is happening. Paladox (talk) 15:01, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Photos from wikicommons disappearance
Few minutes ago, all the pictures from wikicommons have evaporated , is that issue across all the wikis under meraheze's umbrella ? Che (talk) 15:38, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, We are currently affected by an incident at Wikimedia affecting the display on Wikimedia Commons images. We hope service will fully resume shortly. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  16:56, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Renaming Problem
Hello. This is my backup account that I'm temporarily using. So the renaming process from ZapperGlaze49 to TheChisatoFan got stuck at receptionflamewars.miraheze.org and it has been like that for a few hours already. Can you please help me fix this problem? Thank you. KatFan55 (talk) 12:24, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the inconvenience caused by this error, I have now ✅ it and you should be able to log into your original account now. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 15:28, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Question
The Question is, is it possible for a steward to be impeached, and if the steward is impeached, then the steward loses their power.

-RoboticJeffy
 * Yes, it is possible for a steward to be removed ("impeached" as you say). The rules for the removal of a Steward can be found here. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 15:18, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism by administrator
Users Lipomir and Bloodia have committed vandalism and erasure on several pages within the Atlas collaborative wiki, on which they are administrators. This particular wiki is a collaboration between a few groups. Although these deletions initially targeted the moderation team for our group, after moderation action, the users have started deleting all pages by our users on the wiki, and removing the members of our group from the wiki. This was done without warning and without the permission of anyone involved but the aforementioned administrators, in what we consider a severe breach of the Miraheze code of conduct. If there is any way that we can have these deletions restored, the dormant status removed and their admin privileges revoked, that would be greatly appreciated.

One of our users, Gorbatov was an administrator and retained their privileges, so we managed to save through various caches and administrative actions our work, but we would still like, if possible, the deleted content to be restored and the users who committed the erasures to have their administrative privileges on our wiki removed.

Thank you very much, Valdiu

~
 * I have revoked permissions of Lipomir, Bloodia, and Szprot for abusing their permissions, and blocked (locally, at least for now) them because of their vandalism. Local administrators can undelete the pages (as well as Stewards) to fix it. I will start undeleting the pages that were deleted yesterday.-- 09:52, 28 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you so very much! Valdiu (talk) 18:17, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Global block request for 158.140.166.159‎
Please block them globally as they are vandalism-only account that did cross-wiki vandalism. - P1av0rSe01Complaint? 15:14, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 158.140.166.159‎ (global block)
 * Contributions on 백괴사전
 * Contributions on 진실위키
 * ✅ - 16:12, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Global lock request for (offensive username 1)
Username of this user is offensive, therefore it violates Username Policy. Moreover, they vandalized a page on 진실위키 right after creating account on there. - P1av0rSe01Complaint? 16:20, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * (offensive username 1) (talk | contributions | CentralAuth)
 * ✅.-- 16:28, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Can I be a bureaucrat on a wiki where there are no active administrators and bureaucrats?
Currently Kjh010206, the only bureaucrat on 자유반달위키 was globally locked, and other administrators don't edit after 2016. The wiki doesn't seems to be moderated.

Also, on 리센티아 위키, Suneungsiheom, the only administrator on 리센티아 위키 stated that the wiki is discontinued and blocked themselves. Most of contributions on that wiki are just vandalism, like this.

Therefore I want to start managing the wiki instead. Please consider granting the bureaucrat permission on those wikis. Thank you. - P1av0rSe01Complaint? 00:08, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Could you bring a community vote/decision? If the wiki is not eligible for adoption, that is the only way to gain permissions.-- 15:07, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

URL Name Change
Can you change Wage 10 Planet's (now Wage's World) URL to "wagesworld.miraheze.org", please? Just Wage (talk) 15:51, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Our sysadmins can, but stews can't. Please file a request on phabricator.-- 15:12, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Global lock request for 三郎
Please lock this account. Also, User:サブロー and User:ブローサ is his sockpuppet, please lock them too. -- Schwarz ・ Talk /  ウソペディア  11:18, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * user:三郎
 * ✅ due to cross-wiki vandalism and abuse.-- 15:08, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Wiki not setup properly
Hi there!

I've just had a wiki setup for me, but received a message from The Pioneer about some technical difficulties:

"Hi, I have created your wiki per request, but it looks like the permissions weren't transferred successfully due to technical errors. Please visit the wiki to create a local account there, and file a request on stewards' noticeboard so that we can fix it. Sorry for your inconvenience.--開拓者 (The Pioneer)"

When I visited the wiki, I got a 404 page, and couldn't see a way to create a local account. Can I get some assistance please?

The wiki is here: https://formaskevent.miraheze.org/wiki/

Thank you so much!
 * I had a typo to the link, the correct URL is: https://foxmaskevent.miraheze.org/wiki/ . You can visit there, and then I can set up your permissions manually.-- 05:11, 2 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi again! I've just edited the main page. Will that be enough for you to fix the permissions with? (Oatsfear)
 * Yep, and now it's ✅ :)-- 06:33, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Permission transfer
Hi, I have created your wiki per request, but it looks like the permissions weren't transferred successfully due to technical errors. Please visit the wiki to create a local account there, and file a request on stewards' noticeboard so that we can fix it. Sorry for your inconvenience.--開拓者 (The Pioneer) (talk/contribs | global🌎) 05:04, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Please transfer permissions as necessary to Sallyno for davshiq.miraheze.org (this should also be a private wiki, please).

Thank you for your assistance!
 * ✅-- 05:18, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

I don't understand why my request for a wiki was denied.
I requested a wiki, and I got a notice. I can't read the whole notice because it's cut off and when I try to visit the location of the notice it says there is "no special page". It says it was denied because "Forking the existing wiki (for possible block evasion)." However, I never got blocked on such a wiki and that wiki does not exist, to my knowledge. Here's proof: https://toxicfandomusers.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze

I may have confused whoever handled my request, so I will clarify. My friends wanted me to write an article about a very bad user on this wiki, but I can't because it's about bad fandoms, not bad users. I was never blocked on a Miraheze wiki and I just want to write an article for my friends that I can't do unless I get the wiki I requested. So, may I please get it eventually?

Right now I feel like my request was handled poorly, and please correct me if I am wrong. WickyHoney (talk) 05:46, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Edit: I found out that by clicking on "Visit request" on my notice directed me to "Special:Special:RequestWikiQueue/10562" instead of "Special:RequestWikiQueue/10562". I have now edited the request to clarify some things. WickyHoney (talk) 05:58, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Edit: The situation has been resolved, and I am sorry to have sounded impolite during newer messages. WickyHoney (talk) 04:16, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Have nice a day!  CMG [ (Bicara) ] 16:37, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Global lock request for Mr. PSH is back

 * user:Mr. PSH is back

Please lock this account. The user vandalize Idiotpedia and Terrible TV Shows. 13:54, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Void  Whispers 17:55, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Banned Fffff on Loathsome Characters Wiki
Reason: Vandalism, troll ruffian

Signed by - Stephenfisher2001
 * Has been blocked indefinitely on the local wiki. As CVT I have chosen not to lock globally at this time, since there is only vandalism on the specific wiki. Stewards may take any other measures as they see fit. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 19:08, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Global lock request for Desanta69
This user keeps vandalizing Garbage Memes Wiki. -Elsherlock (talk)
 * ✅ Zppix (Meta &#124; CVT Member &#124; talk to me) 17:39, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

I cannot make a topic on the discussion and my old account is broken
If you could help me, i need help trying to make a discussion back at Atrocious YouTubers Wiki. Also, my other account (which i tried renaming) won´t work when i try to login, when i try to log in, it says its either in the process of being named or its being transformed, however, it is not in the process of being named as it is already done being transformed to the new name, if you could please get rid of this problem, i would be grateful.

- User:MelanieMartinezIsMyLife on 5 February 2020, at 19:36 (UTC)
 * I've already pinged Reception123 about the issue, but it looks like it remains unsolved. I've created a phab ticket for this issue.-- 14:23, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism on 리센티아 위키
리센티아 위키 was recently vandalized by some users and the administrator on there is inactive. As there are no active administrators on that wiki, I think these should be handled by stewards. Thank you. - P1av0rSe01Complaint? 08:14, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Please lock these users as they vandalized that wiki by creating nonsense/gibberish pages and mimicking a vandal on Japanese Wikipedia:
 * 갓짤의왕 (talk | contributions | CentralAuth)
 * 혐짤의왕 (talk | contributions | CentralAuth)
 * Please delete these pages. Since there is no template for deletion requests on that wiki, I manually wrote the reason on each page:
 * 2020 로컬 저장소 투표
 * ?時削除‎
 * 즉시삭제
 * File:리카르도 잡다.png
 * Template:노잼
 * Template:반달금지
 * Template:신
 * Template:최강의 즉삭
 * ✅. Could you tell me if this Japanese vandal on Wikipedia is known in Korean wiki communities? I suspect that this might be done by someone pretending to be a Korean. - 15:51, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Such type of vandalism is known in some wiki-related communities and some trolls vandalize wikis in that type, but not often.
 * By the way, another vandal that uses same type appeared on that wiki. See the section below. - PlavorSeol (T | C) 09:21, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Please help set up the wiki
I wanted to ask for help. I need to add protection levels (bureaucrat, consul) for my wiki. How can I do that?Q-bit (talk) 13:45, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
 * You can set it from Special:ManageWiki/namespaces by allowing users with specific rights to edit the namespaces, or use the AbuseFilter to block edits of admins on targeted pages.-- 14:29, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Okay, but how do I make sure that the page can be protected? Where we click on the right (Protection>edit admins only). Q-bit (talk) 10:32, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't think there's a way for this, which is why I recommend you use the abusefilter as an alternative.-- 13:14, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Well. If you can help me set up the filter, I don't know much about them. The wiki site.

Global block request for 119.201.63.0/24
This user vandalized 리센티아 위키 just as vandals related to the section above did. It is clear that it is a sockpuppet of them, and since 119.201.63.75 was globally blocked before, please globally block 119.201.63.0/24 at this time. - PlavorSeol (T | C) 09:21, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * 119.201.63.225
 * Contributions on 리센티아 위키
 * ✅-- 13:25, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Pages Have "Too Many Edits" To Be Deleted?
The staff on All The Tropes have run into a small number of pages which, when we try to delete them, result in the following error message: You do not have permission to delete this page, for the following reason: This page has a large edit history, over 250 revisions. Deletion of such pages has been restricted to prevent accidental disruption of All The Tropes. None of the ATT admins recalls implementing such a restriction, and we don't know where this restriction would be. Can someone please clue us in on where it is and who can change it? Failing that, are these pages something the stewards can delete for us, or is there an issue here that requires a Phabricator ticket? Thank you. --Looney Toons (talk) 22:48, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
 * mw:Manual:$wgDeleteRevisionsLimit, https://github.com/miraheze/mw-config/blob/master/LocalSettings.php#L440-L442 - PlavorSeol (T | C) 07:00, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the research! But this suggests it will require Phabricator to undo.
 * PS - I don't like this restriction, especially as the default. Admins can undelete any page they delete in error.  If deletion is "disruptive," then your problem is not with deletion but with your Admins!  11:48 16-Feb-2020
 * This isn’t a social issue, rather a technical issue caused implementation. Stewards are able to delete these pages on request. A Phabricator ticket isn’t necessary. John (talk) 13:14, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the information. Should we wait for the fallout from this weekend's attempted changes and subsequent rollback to settle before making such a request?  Also, I've been informed that we have a number of images that are similarly resistant to deletion, reporting errors like this ones:

Error deleting file: Rayman small 3678.jpg Error deleting file: An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-backend".
 * Should I include these in the deletion request, or would this be a Phabricator-level issue?
 * Thank you. --Looney Toons (talk) 20:39, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Help. I need desperate help
On Amazing YouTubers Wiki, I gave a user named Landscape the confirmed user right so that he can edit. Somehow, he managed to give himself the bureaucrat role and took away all of our adminships so now we can't stop him. Please block him right away and fix the wiki. PLEASE! It's for our own good.

Thank u, next, Eiji (talk) 19:02, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I’ve paged people to help. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  19:04, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Void should be looking into it. Just to note, the user was able to do that because of the action taken by you at 19:58, 4 December 2019 when you allowed confirmed users to add administrators and bureaucrats via ManageWiki/permissions. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 19:08, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

https://wiki.arcolinuxclub.org/ does not work as expeced
This subdomain has a CNAME entry to mw-lb.miraheze.org but my browser lands at your Mainpage and not at https://arcolinuxclub.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page. What might be the reason? Please assist. --Peter Littmann (talk) 11:45, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Please replace endeavouros.de by archlinuxfamly.de
I registered the domain endeavouros.de but the people there were not happy with this decision. So I registered the domain archlinuxfamily.de and also the .org. Would you please be so kindly and connect them to the subdomain https://endeavourosde.miraheze.org resp. rename the subdomain? --Peter Littmann (talk) 13:12, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Trolls
There's these four users who are acting like trolls, their names are "The Blue Creeper", "The Red Creeper", "Monkeypartner" and "SonicClub 2". Please lock their accounts when one of you guys have the chance. --Seewater514 (talk) 04:26, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Global Block Request For The Red Creeper
This troll was vandalizing pages on Great Characters Wiki. They also appear to have sock puppet accounts such as The Blue Creeper. --Agent Mace (talk)
 * The user has been globally locked for vandalism-only account use. Zppix (Meta &#124; CVT Member &#124; talk to me) 15:02, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

A suspected sock
There's a user named PokkenFan2002 that I blocked on Atrocious YouTubers Wiki. He's likely a sockpuppet of a user known as Gucci Rsbbit, who was globally locked about a month ago. Could you check the IP addresses to see if I'm right or wrong?

Thank u, next, Eiji (talk) 15:38, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Aww shit, he's now trying to create a rip-off of Atrocious YouTubers Wiki called "Atrocious YouTubers Wiki Uncut".

Thank u, next, Eiji (talk) 15:41, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oddly enough, he doesn't appear to be a Gucci Rsbbit sock. There's still a lot of socking going on, and the accounts have been locked. -- Void  Whispers 18:12, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

The Red Creeper is back.
The Red Creeper is back as User:Return of The Red Creeper on Awful Movies Wiki, and he's vandalizing, and troll ruffian once again. -- Stephenfisher2001
 * I've asked someone to take a look at it. The best advice I can give is to to get an admin to revert and block them for now. Please advise users not to respond to them as this may provoke them. See this guide. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  13:13, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Spam in SocialProfile Pages
We have discovered some two dozen SocialProfile pages on All The Tropes which contain link spam:

User:Lespacenter User:Apexdspa2020 User:Rohitjoklar123 User:Christinziegler User:Robinsonsjaco User:NathanDeMetz User:Fullbodymassage User:Flackflores User:Dylanjoseph User:Enterasource User:Myapexdspa User:Shanejohnson User:Aoltechsupport21 User:Boxtaircon User:Stefanwhite User:Thutrangctp User:Phamyen User:Minecraft2 User:Alicetaylor User:Saikumar User:Karthik11k User:Leathercollectionde

We would delete them, but for some reason when we try to use Special:EditProfile to get rid of them, wiki staff now see the message

Permission error You do not have permission to update other users' social profiles, for the following reason: You are not allowed to execute the action you have requested.

Only a few months ago we had no restrictions on our access to this tool. What has changed and why? And if the change is permanent, can the stewards please delete these spam pages?

Thank you. -- Looney Toons (talk) 15:30, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * It was actually removed a little over a year ago. I'll take a look at removing the spam shortly. -- Void  Whispers 18:15, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I am mistaken then; I honestly thought I had used it more recently than that. Regardless, thank you.  -- Looney Toons (talk) 23:47, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I've stripped the contents from the profiles now, but in doing so I noticed that the original reason that we restricted access to this tool has since been addressed. We should soon be able to allow admins to access Special:EditProfile soon. -- Void  Whispers 19:58, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 * A bureaucrat should now be able to restore access to the editothersprofiles right as they see fit. -- Void  Whispers 20:28, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you! --Looney Toons (talk) 21:27, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

CheckUser request
We have what appears from posting activity a possible sockpuppet on All The Tropes. One of the other admins has already blocked the suspected sockpuppet account, but that can be undone if an error was made. Is User:Hole connected to User:Infinite? --Robkelk (talk) 01:30, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
 * sorry for the delay. The two accounts are possibly related, but the technical evidence is rather inconclusive. -- Void  Whispers 19:32, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. We'll leave things as they are now. --Robkelk (talk) 19:43, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

CheckUser request
The Constructed Worlds (Altverse) Wiki is requesting a CheckUser steward to determine if there is any connection between User:Emalia and User:Neesym. The wiki administration has suspicions that the former account is a sockpuppet of the latter due to Discord-related drama. &#32;  centrist16 |  |   &#32; 22:45, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Neesym is too stale for there to be any CheckUser data. -- Void  Whispers 01:55, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

ReplaceText Extension Not working properly
For some reason, whenever I try to use the ReplaceText extension on Toxic Fandom & Hatedoms Wiki, I get this error message:

"Error:text replacements cannot be run if $wgCompressRevisions is set to true."

Is there any way to resolve this issue? TheChisatoFan (talk)
 * Unfortunately, due to the large size of your wiki we had to compress revisions, meaning that the usual "ReplaceText" feature will no longer work on your wiki. As an alternative, I can suggest that you try "MassEditRegex". Sorry for the inconvenience. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 13:06, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Closing horriblemusicandsongs.miraheze.org
So i wanted to adopt the wiki, but it wasn't eligable because it wasn't closed. So i'm asking to be closed because the only bureaucrat/admin doesn't have any contributions and for adoption. --Hendicted (talk) 14:48, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 * You can / should simply wait until it's ready.-- 05:45, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Another suspected sock -_-
There's a user known as FlyingMan98 on Awful Movies Wiki. He's likely a sockpuppet of a user known as WG8686. Could you please check the IP addresses of them to see if they're the same person?

Thank u, next, Eiji (talk) 16:44, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

UPDATE: Flyingman98 is getting worse! He's causing more trouble than before! and please, Ban Flyingman98 as well as his old account WG8686. -_-

Signed by: Stephenfisher2001

The reason for his behaviour is because of his drama. He also made a tasteless tweet on Twitter defaming us as well as calling us "idiots" and is defending a banned troll. He must globally blocked. WageTheGoblin12 (talk) 19:53, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I have confirmed that these two accounts are part of abused multiple accounts, and have locked them.-- 05:52, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Math error
Hi there,I would like advice on the following errors.Entering \relax will cause an error.please see　.On other wikis, it looks like there are no errors.please see .Thank you.--松 (talk) 14:24, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi there,since the code is difficult to see, we will present the link again.Please　see .Also, meta does not seem to have such an error.(e.g. $$\relax$$).Sorry I forgot to write this, but the wiki where this error is occurring is '数の神秘1729'.Thank you.--松 (talk) 00:05, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
 * It looks like \relax is not part in Extension:Math. See this page for the full list of available formulas.-- 05:44, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your reply.The fact that errors do not occur using \ relax may be just a coincidence, as you can see from the description of Extension: Math.(i.e.It is not an error that \ relax cannot be used.)I was wondering if I could consult Phabricator, but if it's not a bug, this time it seems different.Thank you.--松 (talk) 10:25, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Some trolls that are still not locked.
There's these two users who are acting like trolls, their names are "Monkeypartner" and "SonicClub 2". I reported them before and they're still not blocked. Please lock their accounts when one of you guys have the chance. --Seewater514 (talk) 00:23, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅-- 00:32, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Vandal
A user named "Kuun" vandalized Crappy Games Wiki and All The Tropes. Please lock their account when one of you have the chance. --Seewater514 (talk) 20:26, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Void  Whispers 20:49, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Wiki deletion request
https://reptilemanarchives.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page Don’t really need it anymore—ΒΕΜΩΝΧΞΣ (talk) 14:45, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅-- 03:45, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

AntiFortnite1
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/611333234311168000/684398515795132424/Screenshot_20200303-205426_Chrome.jpg

He has been spamming foe requests to ramadhan1a on every wiki he has been, and calling him racial slurs. --Hendicted (talk) 13:59, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ John (talk) 19:13, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Some more trolls
Here's some more vandalism-only accounts that need locking: Ching chong you have the coronavirus, LiberalsSuk, and LiberalsSukkk. --Seewater514 (talk) 18:48, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ John (talk) 19:13, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Delete request (https://soratako.miraheze.org)
Please delete soratako.miraheze.org. This wiki has only contributions by me (or my sub-accounts). And I have announced about deletion using Sitenotice. Furthermore, there are no plans to use it in the future. --そらたこ (talk) 12:38, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅-- 03:46, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Smile.svg Thank you!! --そらたこ (talk) 05:33, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Unwanted User Account Creations - Please stop them!
As instructed in https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T5300 that was pronounced invalid, I'm moving the issue here.

RhinosF1 was kind enough to answer some questions, but some remain.

He said these bogus account creations were Miraheze users, probably using spambots and that there was no way to block them but "we take action once we catch them to try and prevent them." So, how can Miraheze be more effective catching an preventing them? Is there anything I can do to help?

I use email verification and reCAPTCHA for account creation. I assumed those two processes would prevent this problem. Why not? Did I do it wrong?

I asked if we would have this problem on a private server instead of a wiki farm. RhinosF1 said it happens to any wiki or public site. But these bogus users are all Miraheze users. Do farm sites enable this misbehavior? Please explain.

Thanks, Mike*V (talk) 15:37, 5 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Before Miraheze, over the years the Synth DIY Wiki has been on multiple shared hosting servers and has always had the problem of bot registrations. It happens to all wikis. The bots do not originate from Miraheze. If you don't have users confirm email address before they can edit then the bots will also create junk pages, mostly on their own user pages, just to add a spam link. It's pointless doing this because most wikis use nofollow to tell search engines to ignore their links in the rankings. Unfortunately there is no practical fix for this AFAIK. --Rob Kam (talk) 16:46, 5 March 2020 (UTC)