FNW is going for the spam-bots and not deleting the user base, 144 already deleted. If you see more active spam bots, make a list and post here.

Those who are repairing Wikki: make sure you know how to revert pages to previous versions - Edit the page and delete the spam, is not quite the right way to do it.
All original history is still there, just not visible ;
Click on the date thing to the right of "page history" at the bottom and then click on the dated link on the history list you can re-edit and re-save the older revision. Also, In your user options, you can edit the "page revision list limit", then you can always get back to pre-spam data.

Most of the above is quoted from conversation with FNW on IRC tonite.

Thanks for your help!

On the "page revision list limit", its default is 20 in my settings. What setting would be best? Also, is it ok to get to the history by just clicking on the history link next to a page on recent changes list?

I understand the reasoning behind using the history to get rid of the spam but I'm on dialup. It takes a long time for the history to load so I won't be able to clean the wiki up in one session like I was doing. I'll just have to do it bit by bit as time permits. :)

Cool! Some others are editing too so this will be done in no time! :)

I just peeked at the recent changes and it's looking pretty good! So is the captcha successful? :)

Seems ok now, at least is not that big mess we had.

Looks like its holding out =)

Knocking on wood...

The Captcha seems to be successfull, 2 full days and not ONE PIECE OF SPAM!

It is sexy =)

EDIT:

by the way, anti-captcha bots hate that bubble font I have in the captcha system ;)

I agree with you, I thought my idea was good, but yours is better. I wonder if you could make something for these forums? spam bots still make accounts, just can't post spam. I bet the database is exploding with "spambot members".

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/sho...0&postcount=30

Just follow those directions for the registration page here...

under register.php find if ($do == "register") and put the if statements inside of that. I cannot see the code so I'm assuming there is an if statment asking for the do varable.