Forum:Mass Spam

So for what seems like, forever, some idiot botter has been targeting the Dofus Wikia. They appear to be spreading some sort of key logger and have been replacing the content of pages with "Come to our totally non-shady link". While they're usually blocked soon(ish) there's only so much that can be done, and waking up to find 200+ pages vandalised is not exactly my idea of a perfect morning...

In short is there anything I can do to deal with this persistent botter, or is it just gonna be a case of me twiddling my thumbs waiting for them to strike again? Galrauch (talk) 20:17, December 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * (edited) Please don't use inappropriate language on Community Central.


 * On the topic of spam, you can report it to the Vandalism Spam Task Force if you need help cleaning up. You can also contact Wikia staff at Special:Contact to ask if they can help set up the Abuse Filter extension for filtering edits. The extension is customizable by admins and you write filters to block certain types of edits, often using regexes. If you have at least a little bit of coding experience, it's not that hard to use. As a separate idea, if most of the spam is coming from anonymous users, you may also want to ask Wikia if they can prevent all anonymous IPs from contributing on your wiki (they rarely do this, but doesn't hurt to ask).