Last modified: 2011-04-14 15:14:16 UTC
By clicking in once place all changes made by a particular user will be reverted within a certain timeframe. This is NOT a feature for Wikipedia, but for many small sites that use mediawiki for their own user manuals etc. It is a pain when link spam bots create an account and then deface 10s of pages with spam and then the admin has to go through and revert each individual page. Example of spammers contributions: http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Lizator Many of these small sites have been reduced to emailing the admin for an account because of massive amounts of robot vandalism. Sites are having to resort to extreme measures. For example, http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/wiki/ posted the following: 6. January 2006 - Due to spam attacks it is no longer possible to create accounts. Contact us if you need one. 9. January 2006 - Editing and Creating Accounts is allowed for anyone again. But we have installed a strict spam blocker: Only users with admin privileges are allowed to post links that contain http: // Ask us for admin privileges if you want to post external links. Likewise, http://www.pymolwiki.org: The PyMol Wiki actively seeks new users and contributors! However, due to massive amount of spamming, we've changed the registration process, until further notice. If you would like access, you will need to be verified by a system administrator/sysop. To do so, email ... (and tell me why you use PyMol). Also, be sure to include your desired user name, real name, temporary password, and email address. Once we figure out a way to automatically prevent spamming, we'll return to the normal method of registration. vossman
*** Bug 5917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is/would probably be handled better by a extension.
