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I haven’t paid attention to my site’s wiki for a very long time, and recently discovered that there are quite a number of spam articles in it. None of the page show up in the “title” list link, but when I hit random page, they do. The spammy articles also don’t show up in the recent changes list.

Then, from the random page, I get a “This page doesn’t exist” notice, but when I click on the edit link, the spammy content shows up.

The user guide entries on the wiki really aren’t any help here.  How do I get a list of all pages so that I can efficiently delete them?

Also, is there a “hold for moderation” setting?

TIA

Funny, I just noticed my wiki was getting abused also….

I don’t think there are ANY of the type of settings which would help us….....this is probably a feature request already on their list(s) or should be…...same with the forum…..that is.

Rules - stuff like, no wiki posts allowed until at least 20 forum posts have been made.
Rules - Certain forum rooms off limit until certain amounts of posts have been made
Moderation - ALL or some (based on post count, member groups, etc.) wiki posts should be moderated…...

I suppose one could deal with some of this by using different member groups - that is, not allow use of the wiki by most members…just allow it to be used by a higher class of members.

I was surprised and disappointed yesterday when I looked through the settings and found nothing….took a quick look at add-ons also, and didn’t see anything.

Maybe someone can confirm all this…

Hi, Craig and jretzer.

At this point, you can do some user based settings.. you can set the groups that have access to editing the wiki fairly easily. If you look at the screen shot, you’ll see I have the CoolKids and SuperAdmins selected in the second group.

The idea of not allowing members of less than x number of posts to be of a different membership group could be done with some sort of cron.

Right, sue, can be done through users…..but that is hard in the real world if one has thousands of members…..you’d have to keep track of who is who and who qualifies, etc….

As to cron jobs, I’ll dig into that…but many similar CMS and Forums have such a thing built in or as a add-on…let’s face it, most people hear “cron” (including me, although I have done them in UNIX) and shy away….

You could build an extension to submit via Akismet to help.  But we don’t have a current solution for this. A post in the feature request forum would be ideal.

Did you have any further questions?

Thank you.