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:::::: In my opinion the key to fighting spam is to move the burden of effort towards the spammer. The only way I can see that happen is when we disable automatic account creation and invite serious new contributors to drop us a line or meet us for a chat session. There are only a handful of serious new contributors per month, I think, the others are bogus, so the burden for admins would likely be less. Making regular contributions to Rosetta code will take many hours. Surely a serious contributor should be willing to deal with a small threshold. [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] ([[User talk:Fwend|talk]]) 14:45, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
::::::: Maybe have prospective members submit a solution to one of the tasks by form so that we can have a quick look at it before their account is enabled. This should be easy for a serious contributor because that's what they intend to do anyway, but quite a burden for the spammer. [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] ([[User talk:Fwend|talk]]) 15:04, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
:::::: It looks like there is an extension available which does what you want: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke Extension:Nuke]. And it should be [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26#Bundled_extensions bundled with our current wiki version]. So Mike would need to enable it.
:::::: In my experience using a blocklist works pretty well. On the [http://zshwiki.org/home Zsh Wiki] there was a long-time spammer who always posted the same links on several pages. After suggesting to the admin that he should add some of the links to a blocklist the spammer quickly gave up.
:::::: All of the recent spam pages had a huge wall of text thus I think it shouldn't be to hard to find one or two words (or word sequences) which would trigger the filter. Then it doesn't matter if the spammer for example obfuscates the page title.
:::::: The MediaWiki software has [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSpamRegex builtin spam protection using a regex] but again you must have access to the server to enable it. But if that option will ever be enabled I suggest to change the default text which mentions the reason for the block (i.e. the word which triggered the filter) because I don't think we want to let the spammers know what words they should avoid in their spam attempts :-) --[[User:AndiPersti|Andreas Perstinger]] ([[User talk:AndiPersti|talk]]) 17:50, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
: Is it known why the other 2 admins, Paddy3118 and Mwn3d, are not active? [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] ([[User talk:Fwend|talk]]) 14:18, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
:: I presume they are busy. Contributing here is a voluntary activity, and sometimes people need to deal with other things. I know I've gone and been busy elsewhere sometimes for months at a time. Real life is like that sometimes... --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 14:29, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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