[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Spam spam spam eggs sausage and spam

Hello all, Apologies if I sound like a broken record, but I want to raise the issue of spam on the Wikimedia UK wiki again as it seems nothing has happened since Sammy/TheresNoTime reported the issue a few weeks ago. There are currently over 75,000 pages on the wiki, and I'd wager that about 95% of them are spam. Hundreds of pages of vacuous crap are created every day. [Warning - links contain adult text content] The spam ranges from the bizarre <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Penis_goes_in._Penis_comes_out._Can%E2%80%99t_explain_that.> to the offensive <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Raise_your_dongers.>, and includes links to services that may be illegal in the United Kingdom and elsewhere (e.g. unregulated pharmacies <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/The_Secret_Guide_To_List_Of_Approved_Canadian_Pharmacies>, cannabis products <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/How_To_THC_Edibles_The_Planet_Using_Just_Your_Blog>, and supplements making medical claims <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Penis_Enlagment_And_Growth_Of_Hir_On_Penis_And_Real_Male_Enhancement>). I found these examples with a *thirty second* search, and I do not doubt that there are worse ones out there. I realise & respect that most of the people involved with the running of the site are volunteers or only employed by WMUK on a part-time basis, but given that the initial actions Sammy proposed (preventing anonymous editing and locking down account creation) would take about ten minutes maximum I am befuddled as to why they've not been implemented. I know that Sammy offered their help, and I am also happy to assist with the fixes and clean-up. (I'm an administrator on the English Wikipedia and have administered MediaWiki installations myself, if it helps.) Thanks for reading, Richard / (User:Firefly on Wikimedia projects) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk