[03:14:27] Hi everyone, thx for being there. There is a bunch of bots creating users on my wiki and creating randomly generated pages. I manage to put the email confirmation edits, but they are still creating users and i would like to revert them. It's a very small wiki with no much edits. [03:21:46] is there a way to delete the 10k pages those bots created ? :'( [03:32:03] iluvalar: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteBatch.php might be a fix for you [03:47:36] oh no please... no mysql requests >.< there is really no other way to rever 2 weeks worth of changes ? [05:52:20] i've been attacked by bots, the email confimation test stopped them, but they are still creating tons of user and there is 10k pages created already... can i revert the last 2 weeks ? [06:30:00] iluvalar, assuming you have backups, yes [06:30:54] You should probably add a captcha like QuestyCaptcha or similar, something that's not easily defeated by OCR [06:31:47] Alternatively, add in an approval process for making accounts. [06:53:10] N3x15: I dont have such backups saddly [12:46:16] iluvalar: [12:47:09] iluvalar: Maybe use a sql query to get all revisions for the last two weeks and revert them? [14:09:05] I want to include some basic mediawiki examples when a user first creates a page through a preload page. Those examples, I would like to place inside another template. can I include the content of a template page as text when a user creates a new page through a preload page? [14:09:13] (I know that sounds complicated :) ) [14:10:01] but is there a way I can add something like {{Template:test}} to the preload page and have the content of {{Template:test}} show in the page the user creates. [18:32:38] finalbeta: yeah, the other option is called editintro [18:32:49] see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_index.php#Options_affecting_the_edit_form [20:12:49] thanks for the link tgr