[Wikia-l] mass vandalism

[Daniel Friesen]

O_O Radaghast... "the" Radaghast 
<http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/User:Radaghast>.

I thought you disappeared off Wikia, like all the other older users from 
the Narutopedia.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

Radaghast Kary wrote:
> Hello, fellow wiki-maniacs!
>
> One of the wikias I'm gardening (ru.rpg.wikia.com to be precise) has
> suffered an automated vandalism attack a couple of days ago that left
> us with 1902 edits that all need to be removed. The vandals were smart
> and renamed a lot, so rollback doesn't help even if I were to go for
> so many clicks.
>
> Is there a clean automated way to fight this? I.e. to purge all
> contributions of one particular user completely, notwithstanding their
> nature (edits/renames/...)? They were also done within a certain
> timeframe, if that helps.
>
> Here is the edit count:
> http://ru.rpg.wikia.com/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:Editcount/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD
> And here the contribution list:
> http://ru.rpg.wikia.com/index.php?title=%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:Contributions&limit=500&showall=0&target=%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80+%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD
> of the attacker.
>
> Looking forward to hearing positively from you. Please please don't
> tell me we gotta fight them with our bare hands.
>
> WBW, RK.
>   
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