User talk:Anonymous Admin

spam

I've seen the rolling deletions of spam accounts/pages, but none have happened for a few months. Why not add some kind of verification for account and page creation? After a few edits to a single page I have to solve some basic arithmetic, and I imagine this would foil much of the current spam if employed more widely. Onan (talk) 04:32, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

unpaid wiki moderator

Yo, that was me bitching back in October; I'd be willing to take on a mod role and keep an eye out for spam. Glad to see the wiki is editable again, and sorry for the seething. Onan (talk) 03:02, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

No problem, I should have fixed the issues with the wiki a lot earlier than I did. Added you to the mod group. Anonymous Admin (talk) 21:11, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

No idea if you've ever been a wiki moderator before, so check out User group rights for a list of what you can do as a mod. Special pages has a link for pretty much any action you might want to perform, but you'll also see some new buttons (delete/block/protect/etc.) on the articles and user pages themselves, as well as next to each summary on Recent changes. Anonymous Admin (talk) 21:38, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Sounds good. I've taken a look at the moderator rights on the page you linked, and I'll keep an eye on the Recent changes page. Onan (talk) 20:58, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

captcha

I'm seeing what I'll assume are spam accounts appearing, meaning they're getting past the arithmetic Captcha and will probably start making articles more or less freely. MediaWiki supports more sophisticated Captchas through the ConfirmEdit extension, and the Quetsy Captcha looks like it'd be a good option; set the question to "name an author from the meme trilogy" and it'd probably filter out the bots. Onan (talk) 18:30, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

I ran Check User on one of those accounts last week and again today, as a couple more have shown up. They were all registered by the same IP address, possibly manually, but did not manage to make any edits after all. Honestly, I wanted to avoid adding any kind of complex captcha so as to not inconvenience legitimate users, but I did install the StopForumSpam extension before reopening the wiki and it seems to have resolved the automated spam issue. The Questy Captcha suggestion seems pretty good and trivially easy for anyone from /lit/ to get past, though. I'll see about installing it. Thanks for the heads up and happy 2026. Anonymous Admin (talk) 04:53, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

spam filter too tight

Hey, all outbound links are seemingly blocked. I'm trying to add some references to the Collaborative Works page and I'm blocked with the message: "The text you wanted to publish was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to a forbidden external site. The following text is what triggered our spam filter: ." (doesn't list any text besides '.').

Could you loosen/remove the filter? Onan (talk) 21:06, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

I actually had the spam filter set up as a whitelist, but I'll remove it for now. Later on I might reenable it while exempting moderators and confirmed users. Anonymous Admin (talk) 07:25, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. The edit went through fine now that you've removed it. What are the criteria to be a confirmed user? email confirmation or something manual? Onan (talk) 17:07, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Users are autoconfirmed once their account has reached a certain age (currently a week) and they've made a minimum amount of edits (currently none) but it's possible to require email confirmation and a manually assigned user group, too. I don't think that will be necessary, though. Anonymous Admin (talk) 23:53, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

I just ran into a filter on "lulu.com". My case for allowing it would be on account of these existing in print being important to their legacy (the Legacy of Totatlitarianism in a Tundra and Hypersphere received outside attention, ending up in museum/library collections, specifically because of those Lulu copies); the Flash Fiction Anthology compilation is also only available in print via Lulu. What I'm linking aren't re-uploads anyone made later for profit, as far as I can tell. Onan (talk) 05:06, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Huh, that isn't on our blacklist at all, maybe it's on the default one, but I don't see why. I've added it to the whitelist. Try again. Anonymous Admin (talk) 06:06, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Works now. Thanks. Onan (talk) 16:47, 21 January 2026 (UTC)