Wiki spam fight

[kovarex]

So the wiki was spammed way too much than we could imagine, and we need to do some hardcore solution.
We need to solve this in order to be able to send emails at all, this is also the reason why new users can't register on the forum.

The first step we did was to freeze the wiki for now (no edits, no new users).

The solution is to write down usernames that aren't spammers and delete everything that is not from them.
After this, every new user who wants to edit the wiki needs to be manually approved by us.

This is the list of users I found out by going through the wiki, if someone is missing his nick here, let me know, in week or so, we will purge the wiki.

List of users:
Azureangelic
Chaia
Chris
CinematicChief
Coolthulhu
Cube
Feles
FemmeNoire
Ficolas
FreeER
John
kovarex
Monchoman45
MpPozor
Pavel S
Renner96
Rk84
slpwnd
Soffry
Staxxy
TAC
Trucario
Xxx
Zer0t3ch
zlosynus

89.176.96.187 (personal note)

[zlosynus]

My nick zlosynus seems to be missing and I was doing some edits there.

[kovarex]

My nick zlosynus seems to be missing and I was doing some edits there.

Thx, added.

[Chaia]

You forgot my nick Chaia too. Did already some editing which got exchanged somehow?

[nrprad]

Is it possible to get myself added to the wiki?
I've been wanting to add some info on some of the articles, or even make some new ones.
My hope is that by even making some incomplete articles that someone might add some relevant info as well. . . :p

[zer0t3ch]

Glad I made the cut! Just saw this list, so a little to late to ask to be added to the list.

[Candunc]

Haven't been paying attention to Factorio that much, and there is a lot of new items! Do you mind allowing me to edit the wiki? I am going to add some of the new stuff to it.

Thanks, my username on the wiki is Candunc.

[kovarex]

The wiki no longer exists.
I tried to manually remove the spam entries in the wiki sql db (it was more than 5gb of data on our database limited to 1gb)
by deleting the non valid entries based on join with non existend users, but somwhere on the road, it faied.
There is no valid backup, as the 5gb database was not possible to save as backup (was too big).
For comparison, the forum sql db has around 15mb.

Someday, we will make some other alternative wiki, but definitely not in php and not media wiki and with working anti-spam protection.