Junk on wiki

[Styrbjorn]

Hi,
I searched for distilled a l c o h o l on the wiki. Search result showed two pages with spam. I then searched for c a s i n o. Over 500 pages with c a s i n o.
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Perhaps this is a known issue but too cumbersome to rectify? Just wanted to share it.

[Kitunenotsume]

Many of the junk-pages are user-pages created by spam. to my knowledge, only a wiki-admin can actually do the cleanup.

As for the rest - there are probably specifi windows that a lot were create (it looks like Dec 2021), which can be trawled through by community, but would definitely bnefit from someone with a higher bulk-process capacity.

[Styrbjorn]

3249 orphaned pages. A few seems to be in the domain of btscc. The rest is spam.
https://wiki.bgtscc.net/index.php?title ... 0&offset=0

[Steve]

While there are only a handful on players that are updating and creating real content on the BGTSCC wiki, only a few admins have the ability to delete pages (us contributors can only delete content ON the page, but not the page itself).

Maybe some rights can be given out to more so that the wiki won’t contain so much junk after an effort to clean it up.

[Styrbjorn]

I found the spam by chance, searching for info about how to in-game create d i s t i l l e d a l c o h o l. Since all the spam pages are orphaned, and it takes a real search to find them, they should not get indexed by crawler bots. As long as Baldur's Gate city doesn't open a c a s i n o we're good.

[Hullack]

I recall something similar happened on a past server (bots filling up the wiki with Junk pages) and it was inflating the hosting costs problematically. Hopefully its not an issue here.