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We are experiencing a wave of spam on a wikimedia-powered website.
I've always been able to block false user accounts because the block page was blocking its IP. But since yesterday with this spam wave, the page only suggests the user name. I suspect this is not enough.
Is there a way to find this user's IP, not only its name ?
(I don't know how to contact our hosting company)
Instead of trying to block the MediaWiki user block the address from even getting a http/https session by blocking it at the Apache/IIS/Whatever level – Ramhound – 2017-07-28T16:30:26.180
I don't have access to this level unfortunately. I'm trying to know if this information is reachable from the mediawiki website. – Ehvince – 2017-07-28T16:35:41.893
1Sounds like you are not in a position to accomplish your goals of blocking the spammers so find somebody with the ability to do it the correct way – Ramhound – 2017-07-28T22:42:45.660