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)
