[Mediawiki-l] Blocking users/deleting users/IP?

Fri Jan 7 00:11:08 UTC 2005

At 06:29 PM 1/6/2005 -0500, Lisa Jill wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I had a user register on my wiki (eewiki.com) and spam it with links.
>I went to block this user but it wants their IP - I have no idea how
>to find that information out from the wiki.

You can maybe figure it out from your HTTP access logs.  Find the exact 
time of one or more malicious edits in the page history (from inside 
MediaWiki).  Then scan through your access logs for MediaWiki's index.php 
being requested at those times.  If you have a very busy site and it is 
rare that only one person will be on at once, then this approach will risk 
banning an IP address of the wrong person.

And there may be something much easier than this even.  Wait for another 
reply from a "real" expert.  ;)

-Erik