Wiki source code of Review the Latest Changes for Spam
Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2026/10/19 20:21
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| 1 | The "Latest Changes" section of the application home page lists the events of the whole farm, newest first. Its filters hide everything a spam hunt does not care about, including the changes made by [[protected users>>doc:documentation.extensions.admin.antispam.protected-users.WebHome]], so that a burst of pages created by one unknown account stands out. | ||
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| 3 | 1. Open the [[AntiSpam application home page>>doc:documentation.extensions.admin.antispam.open-application.WebHome]]. | ||
| 4 | 1. Tick "Filter out known users" to hide the changes made by administrators, known users and members of known groups.((( | ||
| 5 | {{image reference="latest-changes-filters.png" size="extra" alt="The Latest Changes section of the AntiSpam home page, with the Filter out known users checkbox marked above the event list"/}} | ||
| 6 | ))) | ||
| 7 | 1. Tick "Filter out user pages", "Filter out playgrounds" and "Filter out AntiSpam pages" to hide the profile pages, the playground wikis and the application's own pages. | ||
| 8 | 1. Tick "Filter out non-create events" to keep page creations only. | ||
| 9 | 1. Click "More Events" to walk down the list fifty events at a time, and "Previous Events" to come back. {{version product="AntiSpam" since="1.13"}}The two buttons keep the filters you have ticked.{{/version}}((( | ||
| 10 | {{image reference="event-navigation.png" size="extra" alt="The Previous Events and More Events buttons below the event list, next to the Delete Selected Events button"/}} | ||
| 11 | ))) | ||
| 12 | 1. Tick the events to remove.((( | ||
| 13 | {{image reference="event-selection.png" size="extra" alt="The end of the event list with five events ticked, above the Delete Selected Events button"/}} | ||
| 14 | ))) | ||
| 15 | 1. Click "Delete Selected Events". | ||
| 16 | 1. What is left is a creation-only view of the wiki in which a spam attack reads as a run of pages created by the same account:((( | ||
| 17 | {{image reference="latest-changes-filtered.png" size="extra" alt="The filtered event list showing a run of page creations by a single unknown account"/}} | ||
| 18 | ))) |
