Turn off direct account creations at Testwikidata, at least for periods of time
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	Billinghurst
	Apr 16 2020, 7:00 AM

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Testwikidata is getting spambot hit, and pointlessly. We turned off direct account creations for wikimaniawiki (T247185) and it has been hugely effective for stopping the spambots.

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https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=newusers&user=&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=
Abuselog
https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:abuselog

Can I suggest that we should replicate that task as there is little need to create a SUL account at testwikidata. We can create a direction for the account creation back to wikidata, similar to what was done at
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Loginprompt

Accounts can be created at [[d:Special:CreateAccount|Wikidata:Create Account]].

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	Turn off direct account creations at Testwikidata	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+1 -0

Customize query in gerrit

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T247185: Turn off direct account creations at Wikimania, at least for periods of time

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Billinghurst created this task.Apr 16 2020, 7:00 AM

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Change 589216 had a related patch set uploaded (by DannyS712; owner: DannyS712):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Turn off direct account creations at Testwikidata

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/589216

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 16 2020, 7:06 AM

Noted to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team#Suggested_that_direct_account_creations_be_turned_off_for_TESTWIKIDATA

DannyS712 moved this task from Backlog to To deploy on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.Apr 16 2020, 7:08 AM

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DannyS712 moved this task from To deploy to Analysis / under discussion on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.Apr 16 2020, 7:08 AM

I love misclicks

DannyS712 moved this task from Unsorted to Awaiting review and deployment on the User-DannyS712 board.Apr 16 2020, 7:12 AM

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Change 589216 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Turn off direct account creations at Testwikidata

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/589216

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2020-04-16T11:04:27Z] <urbanecm@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: SWAT: 74ad793: Turn off direct account creations at Testwikidata (T250348) (duration: 01m 06s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2020-04-16T11:05:39Z] <urbanecm@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: SWAT: 74ad793: Turn off direct account creations at Testwikidata (T250348; take II) (duration: 01m 04s)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 16 2020, 11:10 AM

Urbanecm closed this task as Resolved.Apr 16 2020, 11:17 AM

I have created the loginprompt text as indicated above. It is in English.

Perfect!

DannyS712 moved this task from Awaiting review and deployment to Config (deployed) on the User-DannyS712 board.May 27 2020, 8:31 AM

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