Forum:Heavy vandal attack - possible solution

Hi everybody,

Our wiki, Nonciclopedia, was attacked this morning by a vandal known in some wikis (wikipedia too), because he moves user pages with a bot. Because of his methods, it could be very useful to be able to ban and block pages with a regular expression. Is it possible?

I'll explain better the problem: this vandal uses usernames of the form "something planante something" or names containing the word "leonida", and moves pages form "User:username" to "User:username planante username", with all subpages and discussions. It's a pain to revert all his edits, this morning I had to delete about 200 redirects. With a regular expression I can just block all usernames containing "planante" and "Leonida", and block all pages containing the word "planante". MFH 13:27, 22 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Extension:Title Blacklist can be used to do this, but that extension isn't currently installed on Wikia. SUL 17:29, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * i don't think that it is an good idea, because this vandal can change vandalism name and the blacklist will fail. oops, i misunderstood blacklist text... 17:38, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

SUL, what makes you think its not installed at Wikia? --Uberfuzzy 19:21, 22 July 2009 (UTC)


 * This extension seems to be exactly what I was looking for. Great! So Uberfuzzy, can you assure me this extension is already installed? Because I can't find it in Special:Version. --MFH 20:36, 22 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It's not listed at Special:Version, so the extension is not installed. Since the vandal could simply change the location that the pages are moved to, it might be more effective to use Extension:AbuseFilter to throttle page moves by new users. The Abuse filter is currently installed on communitytest.wikia.com. SUL 21:07, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * So what's the conclusion about this extension? --MFH 12:55, 30 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I think it could be pretty usefull if local admin could create a list of blacklisted titles on local wikis since too often i see users create pages that i have to delete because not even related to the wiki subject.
 * The last one was a page named "Salut" (wich mean "Hi" in french) that i redirected to the general forum over there instead of deleting. — TulipVorlax 02:06, 31 July 2009 (UTC)