User talk:Asheesh: Difference between revisions

As we are a small team hosting nearly 4,000 wikis across the wiki farm, we obviously do not have the ''scale'' of resources to track, monitor, and remediate ''all'' spam creations. So, as part of my responsibilities as a [[meta:Stewards|Steward]], as you'll note from your wiki's [[Special:Log/managewiki|ManageWiki log]], one possibility was to enable [[mw:Extension:ProtectSite|ProtectSite]] as a temporary measure to limit page creations to only users in certain permission groups. Unfortunately, following a test on a similar [[mh:permanentfuturelab|wiki]], I was unhappy with that extension's design in that it does not permit the wiki protection level to be set to <code>[[meta:Meta:Autoconfirmed users|autoconfirmed]]</code> and its logging facilities, as well as the fact I couldn't be certain if the temporary one month protection level I'd set had indeed been set correctly. So, as you'll note, I opted instead to modify your <code>(Main)</code> namespace to require <code>[[meta:Meta:Autoconfirmed users|autoconfirmed]]</code> permissions (an implicit user group granted by default to all users once they have had an account on the wiki for at least four (4) calendar days and once they've made at least ten (10) edits). Since the spam only accounts generally create fewer than three (3) pages and often only one page, this is a measure that would have minimal effect on legitimate users on the wiki, and would be remarkably effective at preventing spam from occurring on your wiki.