#microformats 2022-10-02
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capjamesg [tantek] Is this supposed to be on the wiki https://microformats.org/wiki/2011_Wedding_Gown_Trends
# capjamesg There are about 15-20 spam pages here: https://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:LonelyPages
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jamesgallagher edited /Former_German_Chancellor_Gerhard_Schroeder_to_support_Iran's_participation_in_Nabucco_pipeline () "(-1018) Remove spam" (view diff)
# jamesgallagher edited /demo href="http://www.lyricist.com/Clues23.html" target="_blank">http://www.lyricist.com/Clues23.html (-349) "Remove spam" (view diff)
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# [tantek]4 Wow good find capjamesg++
# [tantek]4 We used to have much worse problems with spam and we were pretty good about catching & deleting them
# [tantek]4 I vaguely remember we had a system like replacing their content with “delete me” or something similar so an admin could find and delete them
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# [tantek]4 oh hey that makes sense 🙂
# [tantek]4 for now I'll check RecentChanges so you don't have to spam the channel with a bunch more wiki edits on useless pages 🙂
# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:GetcoDomer]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page): Spamming links to external sites" (view diff)
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# tantek deleted /workofart-formats href="http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/NPOV" target="_blank">http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/NPOV "Spam: content before blanking was spam"
# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:BasnoRelch]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page): Spamming links to external sites" (view diff)
# tantek deleted /semantic-html href="http://www.dev411.com/wiki/Installing_lighttpd_and_FastCGI_for_Catalyst" target="_blank">http://www.dev411.com/wiki/Installing_lighttpd_and_FastCGI_for_Catalyst "Spam: content before blanking was spam"
# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:TazelZelle]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page): Spamming links to external sites" (view diff)
# tantek deleted /semantic-html href="http://fatty.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Slander" target="_blank">http://fatty.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Slander "Spam: content before blanking was spam"
# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:ChiroLrolc]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page): Spamming links to external sites" (view diff)
# tantek deleted /robots-excusion href="http://www.wpkg.org/index.php/Support" target="_blank">http://www.wpkg.org/index.php/Support "Spam: content before blanking was spam"
# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:RicnoDomta]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page): Spamming links to external sites" (view diff)
# tantek deleted /demo href="http://www.lyricist.com/Clues23.html" target="_blank">http://www.lyricist.com/Clues23.html "Spam: content before blanking was spam"
# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:Asdxiaoxiao]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page): Spamming links to external sites" (view diff)
# tantek deleted /Former_German_Chancellor_Gerhard_Schroeder_to_support_Iran's_participation_in_Nabucco_pipeline "content before blanking was spam"
# tantek deleted /2011_Wedding_Gown_Trends "Spam: content before blanking was spam"
# [tantek]4 that should be it. apologies for the noise everyone.
# [tantek]4 if you're looking to hunt for more, if there's a way you can review pages created in the 2009-2011 years, there may be a few stragglers there (that was the last time I remember a big spam storm, before tommorris and I figured out the MediaWiki settings to raise barriers to spam sufficiently)
# [tantek]4 wow
# [tantek]4 I wonder why they didn't show up in your previous scan of orphan pages?
# [tantek]4 e.g. that first one, no pages link to it: https://microformats.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/events/2006-09-08-brighton-microformats-picnichttp://www.wowwiki.com/API_PetCanBeAbandoned
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# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:LetobAscna]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page)" (view diff)
# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:Lakmus]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page)" (view diff)
# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:Janus]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page)" (view diff)
# tantek deleted /Inflatable "content was spam"
# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:Lanqiu]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page)" (view diff)
# tantek deleted /How_to_Addictive_Your_Runescape_Accounts_Gameplay "Spam: content before blanking was spam"
# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:Lijinting]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page)" (view diff)
# tantek deleted /Series_have_also_added_a_new_silver_watch "Spam: content before blanking was spam"
# [tantek]4 thanks again capjamesg++
# [tantek]4 One more possible technique to discover spam pages: is there a way to look for pages that have only been edited once? (i.e. they were created and not edited any further)
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# capjamesg Is this spam [tantek]? https://microformats.org/wiki/hresumeUcheatsheet%27
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# tantek edited /Special:Log/block () "blocked [[User:OuracDomtr]] with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page): Inserting nonsense/gibberish into pages" (view diff)
# tantek deleted /currency-examples-fr href="http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Install_new_JDK_or_JRE" target="_blank">http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Install_new_JDK_or_JRE "Spam: gibberish, spam link in name"
# [tantek]4 capjamesg, I don't know if those hresume* pages are spam, they look like they're all the same content, of someone trying to upload their resume to the wiki which is obviously not an intended use of the wiki
# [tantek]4 I'm going to delete them for now but not block the user because it seems sufficiently ambiguous as to whether it was an eager mistake or not
# tantek deleted /hresumeUexamplesUinUwild'(pour' "content was an individual’s hResume HTML page, not an appropriate use of a community resource"
# tantek deleted /hresumeUcheatsheet' "content was an individual’s hResume HTML page, not an appropriate use of a community resource"
# tantek deleted /hresumeUfr' "content was an individual’s hResume HTML page, not an appropriate use of a community resource"
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